Joy, nostalgia, grief, wonder—good poetry effortlessly evokes mood and atmosphere, taking us elsewhere while guiding us inward. This National Poetry Month, we bring you our In the Mood for Poetry series. Every Friday we will share mood-themed reading lists so you can indulge your highs and lows along with some of our favourite poets. To […]
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Today, we have the honour of celebrating our second poetry release of National Poetry Month 2022: Plenitude by Daniel Sarah Karasik! Plenitude pieces together the political and the playful, the imperative and the undecided, imagining the future of transness, abolition, and collective social movement. Read on to learn all about this urgent new work! Happy […]
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Today, we are celebrating the release of Lunar Tides by Shannon Webb-Campbell! This much-anticipated follow up to I Am a Body of Land explores the primordial connections between love, grief, and water, structured within the lunar calendar. Read on to learn all about this moving collection of poems and for information on the upcoming double […]
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Today, our Spring 2022 Preview series features Anita Anand’s A Convergence of Solitudes, a story of identity, connection and forgiveness in the lives of two families across Partition of India, Operation Babylift in Vietnam, and two referendums in Quebec. Sunil and Hima, teenage lovers, bravely defy taboos in pre-Partition India to come together as their […]
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