Poetry Posts

TreeTalk-ing or, "How I Became a Serial Poetry Monogamist"
"I knew I wanted to do more than just sit in a booth, eating chicken and waffles, and writing. It had to do something that was ever-so-slightly performative, …

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.

Latin Poets and Italian Gods

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