CBC BOOKS CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN FALL 2023

What can we remove from ourselves and still be ourselves?

Written after a brain tumour diagnosis early in the pandemic, The King of Terrors ...

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, ...

CBC BOOKS CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN FALL 2023

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 ...

CBC BOOKS CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN SPRING 2023

Feminist poems both serious and absurd that question our obsession with productivity instead of with care.

Continuity Errors questions ...

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, ...

CBC BOOKS CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN SPRING 2023

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 – ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...