Sina Queyras’ anthology On Occasion: Poems for the People offers a wonderfully diverse array of poetic expression.
By Brooke Lee
Poetry
Surkan’s poems are varied, precise, and overlapping, formally agile while remaining emotionally grounded.
By Paisley Conrad
Schönmaier writes with remarkable clarity and restraint about memory, landscape, music, and duration.
By Paisley Conrad
Kellough suggests that poetic work itself might function as disruption.
By Paisley Conrad
Ampersands appear everywhere, a desire line through the book.
By Paisley Conrad
The book is boldly cosmological, and her imagery possesses a verdant turbulence.
By Paisley Conrad
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Alexei Perry Cox’s deeply political project is a quantum entanglement of love and grief.
By Madelaine Caritas Longman
Laura Vazquez’s language is governed by an unusual, almost surreal logic.
By Frances Grace Fyfe
Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt’s new book of poems is striking as much for its beauty as its simplicity.
By Frances Grace Fyfe
Greene’s poetic conceits – couplets of eleven syllables, shipwrecks, journeys home – harken his work to a golden age of poetry.
By Frances Grace Fyfe
Huang’s collection is on a papyrus for the time being, where gaps appear less by disintegration than by degradations of memory.
By Frances Grace Fyfe
For all its campiness, Solomon’s poetry is also touched by diasporic trauma, loss, and yearning.
By Frances Grace Fyfe