Ronna Bloom: Books

Permiso

Pedlar Press, 2009

“Bloom’s synthesis of contradictory passions into graceful poetics connects Permiso to writing by Adrienne Rich ( Dark Fields of the Republic), Ann Carson ( The Beauty of the Husband), Esta Spalding ( The Wife’s Account). Thinkers, feelers, in conversation with the music of language, building on the gift of accepting almost any sound — in this case any subject matter — as permissible textures for honest poems.” Meg Walker, The Globe & Mail

Public Works

Pedlar Press, 2004
(Shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award)

“Bloom’s poems convey a great tenderness and a painfully acute awareness of suffering in the world.” Ruth Roach Pierson, The Fiddlehead Review

Personal Effects

Pedlar Press, 2000

“It is the intimacy of the poems that will connect with readers and this collection deserves a wide, not solely literary, audience.” Nick Power, Literary Review of Canada

Fear Of The Ride

Carleton University Press, 1996
(Shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award)