Toronto poet Matthew Walsh’s second collection is a fragile negotiation with the confusion and worry of how to be fully human in our modern world
The approach to poetry and the world is tinged with surrealism and not a small dollop of humour
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The approach to poetry and the world is tinged with surrealism and not a small dollop of humour
This list, selected by jurors A.F. Moritz (Canada), Jan Wagner (Germany), and Anne Waldman (U.S.), will not do much to mollify critics of the new prize regime.
Egg Poets is the collective name of a quintet of writers.
The Wild Iris won the Pulitzer Prize; the 2014 collection Faithful and Virtuous Night won the National Book Award.
As a poet, Cayley is particularly good at juxtaposition often manifested as subtle or not-so-subtle shifts in tone and tenor.
Iman Mersal and Susan Musgrave are featured on the five-book Griffin shortlist.
The question of how closely the narrator of Xanax Cowboy cleaves to the poet is one of the overarching aspects of the book.
Haida Gwaii poet Susan Musgrave is one of only two Canadian authors of original works on the ten-book longlist for...
The notion of making oneself "legible" to oneself and others is at the centre of Halen's project.
Eliot's vision of a fallen world blighted by urban decay and a somnambulant populace continues to divide readers.