Shortlisted for the 2009 Pat Lowther Award
Surreptitious breasts of the brain's inside, crammed with
reptilian lights, uv or incandescent, zoom lens for the purpose of
petalled heights. Sherry-Mary saw ...
YOLT explores two artists’ lives before and after transitions: from female to male, and from near-dead to alive.
The unspoken promise was that in our second life we would become the question to every ...
Toronto's CN Tower has fallen into the lake. The city is crowded with refugees from the US. Michael and Ruth Racco's dad has, in a rash of road rage, perpetrated the Backhoe Massacre. And, in the middle ...
Nominated for a Governor General's Award for Translation
Yesterday, on my way back from the museum: my head is full of images of storms. A boundless sea of paintings and photographs. Other storms I build ...
J. Robert Oppenheimer: reluctant father of the atomic bomb, enthusiastic lover of books, devoted husband and philanderer. Engaging with the books he voraciously read, and especially the Bhagavad Gita, ...
A grappling with time, form and embodiment.
Recite your poem to your aunt.
I threw myself to the ground.
Where were you in the night?
In a school among the pines.
What was the meaning of the dream?
Organs, ...
A profound meditation on race, inheritance, and queer mothering at the end of the world.
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In a letter to her six-year-old daughter, Julietta Singh ventures toward a tender ...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE QWF MAVIS GALLANT PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
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From LAMBDA Literary Award winner Sina Queyras, Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer ...
WINNER OF THE ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN AWARD 2022
WINNER OF THE OTTAWA BOOK AWARD 2022
Words like radio waves, bouncing off the spectres of mortality, middle age, and the mundane.
Arriving at middle age was a decisive ...
Shortlisted for the ReLit 2022 Poetry Award
ink earl takes the popular subgenre of erasure poetry to its illogical conclusion.
Starting with ad copy that extols the iconic Pink Pearl eraser, Holbrook erases ...