Our National Poetry Month Celebration continues with Alessandra Naccarato. We’re pleased to share two selections from her debut book, Re-Origin of Species, which was shortlisted today for the 2020 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award from the League of Canadian Poets! Congratulations to Alessandra! The poems in Re-Origin of Species journey through illness and altered states to […]
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Our National Poetry Month Celebration continues with Shannon Webb-Campbell, author of I am a Body of Land. If poetry is a place to question, I Am a Body of Land is an attempt to explore a relationship to poetic responsibility and accountability, and frame poetry as a form of re-visioning. Shortlisted in 2019 for the […]
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Our National Poetry Month Celebration continues with Beatriz Hausner! Today is the official publication day for Beatriz’s latest poetry collection, Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart, and we’re excited to share a sneak peek from the book. Happy Book Birthday to Beatriz and Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart! From wistful romance to explicit sex, these poems concern themselves with various […]
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Our National Poetry Month Celebration continues with a poem from Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes by Jennifer LoveGrove. Longlisted for the Raymond Souster Award in 2018, Beautiful Children With Pet Foxes bears witness to moments of extreme crisis that will take you on an odyssey through a terrain of startling dreamscapes. These are poems haunted […]
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Our National Poetry Month Celebration continues with Julie Joosten! Today happens to be the official release date of Nought, the highly anticipated follow-up to Joosten’s 2013 debut, Light Light, which was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. Happy Book Birthday to Nought! Joosten’s sophomore collection explores the intersections of body, identity, and […]
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Our National Poetry Month Celebration continues with a few selections from To Love the Coming End by Leanne Dunic. A lyric travelogue that moves between Singapore, Canada, and Japan, Leanne Dunic’s 2017 debut captures what it’s like to be united while simultaneously separated from the global experience of trauma, history, and loss that colour our […]
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Our National Poetry Month Celebration continues with ‘Khusrah’, a poem from War/Torn by Hasan Namir. War/Torn, is a brazen and lyrical interrogation of religion and masculinity. Award-winning poet Jordan Scott calls the collection “a breathless elegy in the most defiantly tender poetics you can imagine.” Signal Alert: War/Torn, which was named an Honor Book for […]
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Our National Poetry Month Celebration continues. Today’s poem is an untitled selection from Spawn by Marie-Andrée Gill, translated by Kristen Renee Miller. Celebrated poet Kaveh Akbar writes that “Spawn is unforgettable poetry of the highest order.” Today also happens to be the official release date for this stunning collection. Happy Publication Date to Spawn! Spawn […]
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Our National Poetry Month Celebration continues. Next up is ‘No Exit’, a poem from Mobile by Tanis MacDonald. Mobile is many things. It is an uncivil feminist reboot of Dennis Lee’s Civil Elegies and Other Poems; an urban lament about female citizenship and settler culpability; an homage to working and walking women in a love/hate […]
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