The islands of an archipelago are isolated above sea level but attached underwater; connected yet separate. archipelago, the debut poetry collection from Laila Malik, traces fragments of family, becoming and unbecoming against the shifting shorelines of loss, multigenerational migration, and (un)belonging.
The prestigious and highly anticipated annual anthology of the best poetry from the shortlist of the 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize.
Diagnosing Minor Illness in Children is a striking third collection by one of Canada’s most essential poets.
In April 2023, during World Poetry Month, two Canadian poets were celebrated and honoured as quietly as possible on either side of the country in recognition of their combined sixty years plus of volunteering in their respective poetry communities. This year’s winners were Flavia Cosma and Cornelia Hoogland.
Self-Portrait Embracing a Fabulous Beast explores the need to connect at a time when getting too close to another person could cost one’s life.
Moving Upstream is strong, confident, loving and tender. In this second collection, Mary Barnes takes us with her on an exploration and affirmation of her Ojibwe roots.
Circle Tour, Eva Tihanyi’s ninth poetry collection, seeks and celebrates beauty in the face of despondency.
It Begins in Salt, a book of poems, wanders the halls of an ocean blue-collar life while rummaging the heart spaces of growing up, and evolves into mothering, labours, and loves.
What starts as a series of casual observations grows into a haunting evocation of the horrors of colonialism.
This collection of poems highlight grief and how one can recover from grief.
he Sparrow is a career-spanning selection that reveals how A. F. Moritz’s dynamic, ever-exploratory work is also a vast, singular poem.
An in-depth conversation with poet John Nyman, conducted by Kevin Andrew Heslop.
New Brunswicker Shane Neilson reached out to Bernier-Cormier to discuss the unique and mesmerizing structure of his sophomore collection, and Dominique was kind enough to provide the following generous responses.
With, at times, spiraling self-awareness, Spencer writes herself into a new mode: the post-confessional.
In his commanding poetry debut, Wolf Sonnets, R. P. LaRose undoes the sonnet’s classical constraints, retooling the form for current political circumstances.
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