I’mpossible collab asserts the collaborative nature of literary criticism, how as critics we “write, write with, write alongside, or rewrite” literary texts. In ten essays discussing works by contemporary Canadian poets such as Jordan Abel, Oana Avasilichioaei, Dionne Brand, Anne Carson, Kaie Kellough, Annick MacAskill, Erín Moure, M. NourbeSe Philip, and Lisa Robertson, scholar and poet Klara du Plessis explores the critic’s interpretive agency and the valuable playfulness of pursuing our own insights, proposing a more fluid, organic, and open-ended approach to how we think and write about poetry.

Klara du Plessis is a South African Canadian poet residing in Montreal. Her debut collection Ekke?winner of the 2019 Pat Lowther Memorial Award and shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award?was released from Palimpsest Press; and her Anstruther chapbook, Wax Lyrical,was shortlisted for the 2016 bpNichol Chapbook Award. Klara is a PhD English Literature student at Concordia University, and currently expanding her curatorial practice to include experimental Deep Curation poetry reading events.

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