POETRY
The King of Terrors
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What can we remove from ourselves and still be ourselves?
Written after a brain tumour diagnosis early in the pandemic, The King of Terrors ...
Tumbling for Amateurs
A reimagining of an instructional text on tumbling supports poems about the amateurishness of being human.
Tumbling for Amateurs is a reimagining of James Tayloe Gwathmey’s 1910 book of the same name, ...
Love Language
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In his follow-up to SKY WRI TEI NGS, Nasser Hussain tackles the absurdity of the English language through a modern take love poems
The term ...
Continuity Errors
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Feminist poems both serious and absurd that question our obsession with productivity instead of with care.
Continuity Errors questions ...
The Animal in the Room
Deer with binoculars, wolves with resumes: bioengineered poetry that unsettles truth, fact, and history.
Animals are strange testing grounds for thinking about subjectivity, language, the body — really, ...
Slows: Twice
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Backward and forward: a double book of mirrored poems about identity in all its forms.
This is a book of slow hours, days, and years – ...
Fire Cider Rain
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 to which shared cultural and geographic histories ...
Test Piece
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
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
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 ...