Votive

Annick MacAskill’s Votive, the anticipated follow-up to her 2022 Governor General’s Award–winning collection Shadow Blight, combines themes of intimacy, privacy, eros, and queerness, while the transgressive and the religious infuse this collection. Of course, votive ... Read More »

November 27, 2024 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ No Credit River

By Zoe Whittall

When I begin reading Zoe Whittall’s No Credit River, I am on a train. I usually read on the train. As I lean in to highlight certain lines – the pages rest on the foldable ... Read More »

November 6, 2024 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Poetry, Reviews

South Side of a Kinless River

By Marilyn Dumont

“Colonialism is an absence that widens,” writes celebrated poet Marilyn Dumont in “misāskwatо̄mina,” the first poem of her new collection, South Side of a Kinless River. The collection, divided into three sections, opens with a ... Read More »

October 16, 2024 | Filed under: Indigenous Peoples, Poetry, Reviews

WakeWord

By Wakefield Brewster

Bringing spoken word poetry to the page has historically been seen as controversial, since academia has tended to dictate the ways that poetry can be received and read, and spoken word consistently continues to challenge ... Read More »

June 12, 2024 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Crying Dress

By Cassidy McFadzean

“The most interesting part of architecture is the non-functioning,” writes Cassidy McFadzean in “Pier Evil,” one of the poems in her third collection. In a later poem, McFadzean clarifies this observation: “Fluting’s the only feature ... Read More »

April 24, 2024 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ Teeth

By Dallas Hunt

Dallas Hunt’s Teeth is a stirring follow-up to Creeland, his first book of poetry. In “Cree Dictionary,” from his debut collection, Hunt begins with a witty redefinition of terms: “the translation for joy / in ... Read More »

April 10, 2024 | Filed under: Indigenous Peoples, Poetry, Reviews

★ The Seventh Town of Ghosts

By Faith Arkorful

Faith Arkorful’s debut book, The Seventh Town of Ghosts, is a collection of lyric poems suffused with a heart-centred intelligence. These poems move through grief, memory, and joy with the insight of “a black girl ... Read More »

April 3, 2024 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ The Lantern and the Night Moths: Five Modern and Contemporary Chinese Poets Selected and Translated by Yilin Wang

By Yilin Wang

The Lantern and the Night Moths is an exceptional book of translations and literary criticism by poet-translator Yilin Wang. Wang’s original translations of five Chinese poets and her accompanying essays (one per poet) make for ... Read More »

March 27, 2024 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ A Year of Last Things

By Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje’s latest collection is impossibly good. It is the work of a mature poet at the zenith of his talent. T. S. Eliot wrote, “The mature poet, in the operations of his mind, works ... Read More »

March 13, 2024 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Journal

By Marie Uguay; Jennifer Moxley (trans.)

Canadian literature is a multilingual territory, and I will admit that my first introduction to the work and life of French-Canadian poet Marie Uguay comes with the recent publication of her journals in translation. As ... Read More »

February 7, 2024 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Poetry, Reviews

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