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 ...

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 ...

WINNER OF THE 2019 GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARD

Can poems mourn the unmourned? In Obits. a speaker tries and fails to write obituaries for those whose memorials are missing, those who are represented only ...

Winner of the 2014 A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry

MxT, or ‘Memory x Time,’ is one of the formulas acclaimed poet Sina Queyras posits as a way to measure grief. These poems mourn the dead by turning memories ...