About the author
Dale Winslow earned her B.Sc. in Wildlife Management from the University of Guelph and her B.Ed. from the University of Victoria. Dale has enjoyed life as an interpretive naturalist, wildlife and fisheries biologist, teacher, photographer, painter, editor and writer. She was co-editor of the" Poetry Ring "feature for" ETC: A Review of General Semantics "from 2008-2011. Her poetry has been published in "Other Voices, ETC, General Semantics Bulletin, " several anthologies, various e-zines, and she was co-editor and contributor to the poetry anthology" Candy." Dale resides in Victoria on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Reviews
"Dale Winslow's "Tinderbox "shows a sure, mature touch with words, and styles. Many of the poems herein blend symbolist style with contemporary rap: a rap without the theatrical ranting and bling. And from time to time one can hear or glimpse in the background an e e cummings, a John Skelton. Entertaining and thought-provoking."
Eric McLuhan, author of "Electric Language, The Role of Thunder in Finnegans Wake," and co-author with Marshall McLuhan of "Laws of Media, " and "Media and Formal Cause."
"Dale Winslow's "Tinderbox" will ignite" you." Her sensuous poems explode in an orgiastic word feast which communicates a waking dream convergence between women, nature, and truth. Winslow's words hook you; you "reel them in real in them until you say "O."" She conjures many varieties of ""O"" and "Oh" which encircle you within poetic sheer delight. Really "
Marleen S. Barr, author of "Genre Fission, Lost in Space, Feminist Fabulation," and the novel, "Oy Pioneer "
"These poems track truth as though it were some constantly morphing mythical creature leaping from one disguise to another until it is caught and stilled in its final form-wisdom. They are euphonious, sensual, full of surprises and highly engaging. They present the reader with ample opportunities to "commit pleasure crimes against the dying world.""
Robert Priest, poet, novelist, playwright, songwriter, performer
"A late evening's snifter of words - surprisingly ancient and very modern at the same time, personal and cosmic, even the typography dances - that gets to the deepest centers of your brain. Winslow is a welcome, major talent."
Paul Levinson, author of "The Plot to Save Socrates" and "Unburning Alexandria"
"No container of flammable miniatures but rather a smoldering verbal inferno, blazing with the heat & light of Dale Winslow's unflinching yet passionate gaze on all things great and small, "Tinderbox" addresses the most profound preoccupations of consciousness: love & loss, the natural & unnatural worlds ("broken temples of man"), &, most exquisitely perhaps, death ("the endangered void"). It should be no surprise, then, that to enter the world of "Tinderbox" is to enter the world itself in all of its felt drama -- illuminated, lamented, & celebrated by the voice of this "white noise Orpheus," a voice both incendiary & generative, "curling/coiling/as a snake/on fire.""
Susan Lewis, poet and editor

About the author
Dale Winslow earned her B.Sc. in Wildlife Management from the University of Guelph and her B.Ed. from the University of Victoria. Dale has enjoyed life as an interpretive naturalist, wildlife and fisheries biologist, teacher, photographer, painter, editor and writer. She was co-editor of the" Poetry Ring "feature for" ETC: A Review of General Semantics "from 2008-2011. Her poetry has been published in "Other Voices, ETC, General Semantics Bulletin, " several anthologies, various e-zines, and she was co-editor and contributor to the poetry anthology" Candy." Dale resides in Victoria on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Reviews
"Dale Winslow's "Tinderbox "shows a sure, mature touch with words, and styles. Many of the poems herein blend symbolist style with contemporary rap: a rap without the theatrical ranting and bling. And from time to time one can hear or glimpse in the background an e e cummings, a John Skelton. Entertaining and thought-provoking."
Eric McLuhan, author of "Electric Language, The Role of Thunder in Finnegans Wake," and co-author with Marshall McLuhan of "Laws of Media, " and "Media and Formal Cause."
"Dale Winslow's "Tinderbox" will ignite" you." Her sensuous poems explode in an orgiastic word feast which communicates a waking dream convergence between women, nature, and truth. Winslow's words hook you; you "reel them in real in them until you say "O."" She conjures many varieties of ""O"" and "Oh" which encircle you within poetic sheer delight. Really "
Marleen S. Barr, author of "Genre Fission, Lost in Space, Feminist Fabulation," and the novel, "Oy Pioneer "
"These poems track truth as though it were some constantly morphing mythical creature leaping from one disguise to another until it is caught and stilled in its final form-wisdom. They are euphonious, sensual, full of surprises and highly engaging. They present the reader with ample opportunities to "commit pleasure crimes against the dying world.""
Robert Priest, poet, novelist, playwright, songwriter, performer
"A late evening's snifter of words - surprisingly ancient and very modern at the same time, personal and cosmic, even the typography dances - that gets to the deepest centers of your brain. Winslow is a welcome, major talent."
Paul Levinson, author of "The Plot to Save Socrates" and "Unburning Alexandria"
"No container of flammable miniatures but rather a smoldering verbal inferno, blazing with the heat & light of Dale Winslow's unflinching yet passionate gaze on all things great and small, "Tinderbox" addresses the most profound preoccupations of consciousness: love & loss, the natural & unnatural worlds ("broken temples of man"), &, most exquisitely perhaps, death ("the endangered void"). It should be no surprise, then, that to enter the world of "Tinderbox" is to enter the world itself in all of its felt drama -- illuminated, lamented, & celebrated by the voice of this "white noise Orpheus," a voice both incendiary & generative, "curling/coiling/as a snake/on fire.""
Susan Lewis, poet and editor

"Candy: A Collection To Satisfy Your Sweetest Cravings," is an eclectic collection which ranges from the romantic to the taboo and from the intimate to the voyeuristic. With sensitivity, passion and at times humor, these poems capture the delights of sex, sexuality, love, lust and fantasy.

From the Introduction

]the gratification offered by the form of erotic poetry mirrors the gratification we may gain from its content. And so, we may admire the craft that went into the making of the poem, perhaps even dissect the technique, or we may, at the other extreme, find ourselves in a Pygmalion-like state of arousal, or a Narcissus-like state of narcosis. But above all, the erotic mirror that these poets have fashioned allows us to examine ourselves, our needs and our wants, our experiences and intentions, our minds and our bodies, in all their beauty, and in their unattractive aspects as well. In short, the mirror of Eros allows us to know ourselves, in all of our humanity.

-Lance Strate, author of "Echoes and Reflections"

Reviews

A wonderful celebration of sexual textasy."

-Robert Priest, author of "Reading the Bible Backwards"

"Candy" is better than sweet - it's a sensuous collection of metaphoric, metaphysical, pulsing, pounding, gentle, gossamer erotic poetry.

-Paul Levinson, author of 5 novels including "The Plot to Save Socrates," and "The Pixel Eye"

"Candy" is heated and hardened, sugary foreplay for anybody in need of some sweetness."

-Jeanette Kantzalis, novelist and musician-songwriter for "A Brokeheart Pro"

In an age that hypes the erotic potential of new media, "Candy" is a reminder that language itself remains our principal instrument of desire.

-Joseph W. Slade, author of "Pornography in America," the three volume reference work "Pornography and Sexual Representation," and "Thomas Pynchon" (Writers for the 70's series)