Poetry

Kingdom of the Clock

Kingdom of the Clock

On nearly every page, characters reckon with life, death, friendship, morality, addiction, and paying the rent.

By Madelaine Caritas Longman

White Lily

White Lily

White Lily’s ironic, minimalistic stanzas sear like incisions across the page.

By Madelaine Caritas Longman

Palestine Wail

Palestine Wail

A hopeful voice in a devastating time.

By Madelaine Caritas Longman

UNMET

UNMET

UNMET continues to establish stephanie roberts as one of Montreal’s most exciting contemporary poets.

By Madelaine Caritas Longman

Stolen Plums

Stolen Plums

Turski’s poems lick the lead off paintings, gaze upon the “plains of horns” of lychees, and pulse like a “eusocial tide” of ants.

By Madelaine Caritas Longman

La Belle-Mère / The Stepmother

La Belle-Mère / The Stepmother

This is a feminist project, one which imagines new modalities for intimate cohabitation and kinship.

By Klara du Plessis

The Inferno

The Inferno

Goodison’s lines bristle with colloquialisms and music.

By Brennan McCracken

The Seated Woman

The Seated Woman

The muse, it seems, has finally refused the conditions of its labour.

By Frances Grace Fyfe

Fugue Body

Fugue Body

Huh’s speaker finds love in the beloved’s idiosyncrasies.

By Frances Grace Fyfe

Cut Side Down

Cut Side Down

Could the Bard himself have come up with the amazing sonic description “snapping dirt-streaked asparagus”?

By Frances Grace Fyfe

No One Knows Us There

No One Knows Us There

Bebenek paints an accurate picture of grief – how it can make you both glassy-eyed and allow you to see the world more clearly.

By Frances Grace Fyfe

Chambersonic

Chambersonic

Avasilichioaei is attuned to what we might hear in an otherwise quiet room.

By Frances Grace Fyfe