HCSHR 8:5 – Weather
Title: Weather Author: Rob Taylor Publisher: Gaspereau Press Publication Date: 2024 ISBN: 9781554472635 Price $29.95 review by Pearl Pirie Weather by Rob Taylor (Gaspereau Press, 2024) is barely backlist. I read it when it came out then put it on my best of year list. I’ve since reread it a few times and enjoy on each pass. It seems I favour Rob Taylor books having read, The Other Side of Ourselves (Cormorant Books, 2011) which is lyric poetry. I missed The News (Gaspereau, 2016) but caught Strangers (Biblioasis, 2021) which has a few haiku such as this, p. 50 late summer walk slanting my father's Issa to catch streetlight Weather by Rob Taylor (Gaspereau Press, 2024) doubles down on haiku and haiku-adjacent poems. it was a finalist for the 2025 Raymond Souster Award , Longlisted for the 2025 Fred Cogswell Award , was a Miramichi Reader Best Book of 2024 and a Tyee Summer Reads Pick for 2024 It was in my top list of books for 2024 so I gelt...