POETRY
Masses on Radar
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 ...
Because The Sun
Camus’s Meursault and Thelma and Louise meet up under the blazing sun.
Vexed by the ‘unremarkable star’ that ‘presses’ Camus’s Meursault to commit murder, Because the Sun considers the blazing ...
Exhibitionist
Shortlisted for the ReLit 2022 Poetry Award
Smart, raunchy poems that are sorry-not-sorry.
One minute she’s drying her underwear on the corner of your mirror, the next she’s asking the sky to swallow ...
Entering Sappho
An abandoned town named for the classical lesbian leads to questions about history and settlement.
Driving along the Pacific Coast Highway, you come to a road sign: Entering Sappho. Nothing remains of ...
Swivelmount
Poems to read in the small hours before dawn, when the sirens start up again.
Swivelmount’s concerns – the collapse of subject and world, eros and law, knowledge and bafflement – gain new urgency ...
Watch Your Head
A warning, a movement, a collection borne of protest.
In Watch Your Head, poems, stories, essays, and artwork sound the alarm on the present and future consequences of the climate emergency. Ice caps ...
Word Problems
From Ian Williams, author of Reproduction, winner of the Giller Prize and a June 2020 Indie Next Great Read
Frustrated by how tough the issues of our time are to solve – racial inequality, our pernicious ...
Avant Desire
The definitive survey of an essential feminist poet.
In June 2019, Nicole Brossard was awarded the Lifetime Recognition Award from the Griffin Poetry Trust. Rarely has a prize been so richly deserved. ...
The Tower
W. B. Yeats meets Gregg Araki at a gay bar.
The Tower is a "translation" of W. B. Yeats's The Tower—an homage and reinvention of the poet’s greatest work. Whereas Yeats’s book contended with his ...
POP
Softening concrete poetry with humour and tenderness, POP takes an uncommon perspective on modern poetic traditions, combining deft lyricism with visual poems for a playful romp.
POP rummages through the ...