The spirit of the interrobang, a punctuation mark merging the questioning and the exclamatory, informs Mary Dalton' s compelling investigations of home and identity in this, her sixth poetry collection-- in extraordinary poems of aging; of despised plants once revered; of rites and sites of community abandoned. The " flared mouth" of Dalton' s acclaimed musicality gives voice to lost souls and a lost sense of the earth. source
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“She…documents the names of Holyrood clubs: 'The Butterpot Tavern, Mother Hickey's, Mary Anne LaCour's, Dav[is's]…'”
The Walrus review of Interrobang quotes Dalton verbatim listing named taverns in the specific Conception Bay community of Holyrood — a precise place anchor for a Dalton collection beyond Merrybegot.
Jason Guriel, 'Forget Polite Verse,' The Walrus, reviewing Mary Dalton's Interrobang (Véhicule, 2024) — source
