Poetry

G

G

Klara du Plessis and Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi's poetic collaboration is playful and deeply felt.

By Emily Mernin

Listening in Many Publics

Listening in Many Publics

Jay Ritchie’s second collection admixes an anxious, capitalist surrealism with the fleeting liminality of memory.

By Ronny Litvack-Katzman

Whiny Baby

Whiny Baby

Colloquial in tone and by turns rambling and self-deprecating, Julie Paul's book catalogues daily trials we’d rather not confront.

By Ronny Litvack-Katzman

you

you

Chantal Neveu’s poem floats seamlessly between sensuality and desire, confusion and anger, and their attendant dislocations.

By Ronny Litvack-Katzman

Talking to Strangers

Talking to Strangers

Rhea Tregebov's collection of short, narrative poems catalogues a life led in search of love and found in unlikely places. 

By Ronny Litvack-Katzman

Life Cycle of a Mayfly

Life Cycle of a Mayfly

Maya Clubine’s extended metaphor for life after childhood recalls the sordid task of returning to those images that make a memory.

By Ronny Litvack-Katzman

Furniture Music

Furniture Music

Montreal-based poet Gail Scott's experimental prose memoir archives the ordinary in the midst of upheaval.

By Aishwarya Singh

Bottom Rail on Top

Bottom Rail on Top

DM Bradford's collection is a cat’s cradle of echoes from pre–Civil War America.

By Faith Paré

Theophylline

Theophylline

Erín Moure’s collection combines academic research and cultural criticism, intertwined with original poems.

By Zoe Shaw

Continuum

Continuum

Ivanna Baranova’s second poetry book is a collection of longings – longings for a lover, for a deeper connection to nature, and more.

By Zoe Shaw

[about]ness

[about]ness

Eimear Laffan’s book is a long poem in sections that chronicles the creation of a text not yet completed.

By Zoe Shaw

The Decline and Fall of the Chatty Empire

The Decline and Fall of the Chatty Empire

John Emil Vincent's book is a story in verse of the stuttering feeling of finding one’s purpose and overcoming cultural pressures on aging women.

By Zoe Shaw