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The Animal in the Room

By Meghan Kemp-Gee
Categories: Poetry

LONGLISTED FOR THE GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARD

Deer with binoculars, wolves with resumes: bioengineered poetry that unsettles truth, fact, and history.

Animals are strange testing grounds for thinking ...

Slows: Twice

By T. Liem
Categories: Poetry

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 A.M. KLEIN PRIZE FOR POETRY

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 RAYMOND SOUSTER AWARD

CBC BOOKS CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN SPRING 2023

Backward and forward: a double book of ...

Fire Cider Rain

By Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin
Categories: Poetry

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN AWARD

Poetry that navigates the science of cold waterways to consider the warmth of the poet’s Chinese-Mauritian family ties

Fire Cider Rain is about the limits ...

Test Piece

By Sheryda Warrener
Categories: Poetry

FINALIST FOR THE 2023 DOROTHY LIVESAY POETRY PRIZE

Ways of Seeing meets Mary Ruefle in these visual-art-inflected poems

Though they started from Sheryda Warrener’s impulse to see herself more clearly, ...

Surface Tension

By Derek Beaulieu
Categories: Poetry

Typography meets poetry at a Pink Floyd laser-light show

In Surface Tension, poetry is liquefied. Flowing away from meaning, letters and words gather and pool into puddles of poetry; street signs and logos ...

Boat

By Lisa Robertson
Categories: Poetry

LONGLISTED FOR THE PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARD

From the author of The Baudelaire Fractal, a poetry classic, with new work

In 2004, boldly original poet Lisa Robertson published a chapbook, Rousseau’s Boat ...

Whitemud Walking

By Matthew James Weigel
Categories: Poetry

WINNER OF THE 2020/2021 ALCUIN SOCIETY BOOK DESIGN AWARD FOR POETRY

WINNER OF THE ROBERT KROETSCH CITY OF EDMONTON BOOK PRIZE

WINNER OF THE 2023 STEPHAN G. STEPHANSSON AWARD FOR POETRY

WINNER OF THE GERALD ...

After Beowulf

By Nicole Markotic
Categories: Poetry

CBC BOOKS BEST CANADIAN POETRY BOOKS OF 2022
LONGLISTED FOR THE RAYMOND SOUSTER AWARD

hwæt, another Beowulf translation? Not exactly…

Welcome to Denmark’s Heorot Hall, where King Hrothgar invites to ...

Heady Bloom

By Andrew Faulkner
Categories: Poetry

A buddy-cop dramedy starring a bottle of Advil and a headache that won’t quit

Imagine you’re standing in a room, and someone on the other side of the door won’t stop knocking – ever. Welcome to ...

Ink Earl

By Susan Holbrook
Categories: Poetry

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 ...