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Poetry

Mayor Snow

By Nick Thran

Nick Thran is a poet who makes trouble. He makes trouble both for language and the power relationships language mirrors. Thran works under the umbrella of James Tate, alongside surrealist post-Tate troublemakers on both the ... Read More »

November 10, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry

Niche

By Basma Kavanagh

“In an extinction event of our own making, what happens to us?” asks journalist and Williams College professor Elizabeth Kolbert in the concluding pages of her 2014 Pulitzer Prize–winning book, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural ... Read More »

November 10, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry

Entrainment

By Ewan Whyte

Laura Clarke’s witty romp, Decline of the Animal Kingdom, helped her win the 2013 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers (when the selections were called Mule Variations). In her debut collection, she ruminates on ... Read More »

October 15, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry

Decline of the Animal Kingdom

By Laura Clarke

Laura Clarke’s witty romp, Decline of the Animal Kingdom, helped her win the 2013 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers (when the selections were called Mule Variations). In her debut collection, she ruminates on ... Read More »

October 15, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry

A Serious Call

By Don Coles

In the opening paragraph of A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (1729), from which Don Coles has drawn the title of his new poetry collection, William Law writes that “Devotion signifies a ... Read More »

June 25, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry

the pet radish, shrunken

By Pearl Pirie

In her third poetry collection, Ottawa’s Pearl Pirie unleashes her deep curiosity about language. Writing on the BookThug blog, Pirie claims, “I like when the words in words are not the root word but are ... Read More »

April 6, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry