Poetry Posts
Everybody’s Martyrology
William Blake
Modernity and Disaster
Filling the Gaps, Minding the Gaps: the Unconventional (Mostly) Small Town Girls of CanLit
An amazing recommended reading list by Robin Durnford, whose new poetry collection is Gaptoothed.
Most Anticipated: Our 2020 Fall Poetry Preview
Our Fall Preview continues with poetry, an intriguing selection of debuts, collected works, and excellent new releases.
The Chat with Cicely Belle Blain
This week on the Chat, we’re in conversation with Cicely Belle Blain, author of the forthcoming poetry collection Burning Sugar (VS. Books/Arsenal …
Launchpad: Murmurations, by Annick MacAskill
Populating her poems with birdsong and murmurings of the natural world, MacAskill highlights how poets and lovers share much with birders on the twitch, …
Launchpad: the broken boat, by Daniela Elza
"The poems, fractured and musical on the page, are at once stark and complex, surreal and familiar. There is a vertiginous sense of unsteady balance, …
Launchpad: Glass Float, by Jane Munro
"Like glass floats themselves, these neat, clear poems contain Munro's breath. They cross oceans."—Ian Williams
Launchpad: The World is Mostly Sky, by Sarah Ens
"Whether she’s writing of girlhood or womanhood, of the prairies or the city, Ens’ vivid, forceful language fully engages and challenges her readers."— …
Launchpad: Devolution, by Kim Goldberg
"Kim Goldberg is a climate-voyant, offering visions of time-warped ecologies and malignantly inverted processes of nature." —Sonnet L'Abbé