Rob Winger’s It Doesn’t Matter What We Meant and Evie Christie’s Mere Extinction are the latest contributions to a genre I’m calling GTA pastoral. Each offers lyric meditations on a gritty urban present populated by, ... Read More »
Rob Winger’s It Doesn’t Matter What We Meant and Evie Christie’s Mere Extinction are the latest contributions to a genre I’m calling GTA pastoral. Each offers lyric meditations on a gritty urban present populated by, ... Read More »
To say that Steven Heighton has done well for himself over his nearly 40-year career is a bit of an understatement. In both poetry and fiction, Heighton’s rise to royalty in the CanLit world has ... Read More »
Larissa Lai’s latest book is a masterful long poem that spins in and out of chaos and order, charting the movement of the Furies, the three Greco-Roman goddesses of vengeance and retribution. Joy is enjambed ... Read More »
In her debut collection, A Number of Stunning Attacks, Jessi MacEachern creates poetry within individual words and sparse lines. The six poems recall the styles of Nicole Brossard and Anne Michaels in how MacEachern makes ... Read More »
Indo-Guyanese Canadian Natasha Ramoutar’s debut collection of poems charts paths through diasporas and ends in a celebratory uplifting of Toronto suburb Scarborough, the final destination on this journey. With an especially skilled use of internal ... Read More »
Margaret Atwood captures the tone of her latest collection in the title poem, when she writes, “Don’t think this is morbid. / It’s just reality.” “Dearly” best encapsulates the poet’s musings on time as an ... Read More »
Margaret Atwood captures the tone of her latest collection in the title poem, when she writes, “Don’t think this is morbid. / It’s just reality.” “Dearly” best encapsulates the poet’s musings on time as an ... Read More »
Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch is a queer mixed Arab poet working out of Montreal. Their work to date has sought to open up explorations of queerness, family, culture, and diaspora, and of the strange process ... Read More »
The world of Burning Sugar – the intimately powerful debut from Vancouver poet and activist Cicely Belle Blain – is, above all else, dynamic, always moving, tracing arcs and trajectories, modes of learning and loving. ... Read More »
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