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Heliotropia

By Manahil Bandukwala

Manahil Bandukwala’s second collection of poems, Heliotropia, shares its name with a unisex perfume by Swedish luxury brand Byredo. Like the scent’s floral note of jasmine, a flower that opens at night, the works in ... Read More »

December 11, 2024 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Votive

By Annick MacAskill

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

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