Jay Ritchie’s second collection admixes an anxious, capitalist surrealism with the fleeting liminality of memory.
By Ronny Litvack-Katzman
Poetry
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
Chantal Neveu’s poem floats seamlessly between sensuality and desire, confusion and anger, and their attendant dislocations.
By Ronny Litvack-Katzman
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
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
Montreal-based poet Gail Scott's experimental prose memoir archives the ordinary in the midst of upheaval.
By Aishwarya Singh
DM Bradford's collection is a cat’s cradle of echoes from pre–Civil War America.
By Faith Paré
Erín Moure’s collection combines academic research and cultural criticism, intertwined with original poems.
By Zoe Shaw
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
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Eimear Laffan’s book is a long poem in sections that chronicles the creation of a text not yet completed.
By Zoe Shaw
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
Salena Wiener’s chapbook is intimate and personal, focused on the relationship between the speakers and their bodies in relation to other people.
By Zoe Shaw