Two Canadians shortlisted for the 2023 Griffin Prize; Scribner U.S. launches a poetry imprint
Iman Mersal and Susan Musgrave are featured on the five-book Griffin shortlist.
Xanax Cowboy, the subversive debut book of poetry from Hannah Green, melds linguistic acrobatics and formal control
The question of how closely the narrator of Xanax Cowboy cleaves to the poet is one of the overarching aspects of the book.
Griffin Poetry Prize reveals its 2023 longlist under new selection rules; only two original works by Canadian poets make the cut
Haida Gwaii poet Susan Musgrave is one of only two Canadian authors of original works on the ten-book longlist for...
Poetic form gets exploded and reshaped in two recent volumes from River Halen and Otoniya J. Okot Bitek
The notion of making oneself "legible" to oneself and others is at the centre of Halen's project.
Fragments shored against ruins: Matthew Hollis charts the convoluted and painful path toward T.S. Eliot’s masterpiece in a new “biography” of The Waste Land
Eliot's vision of a fallen world blighted by urban decay and a somnambulant populace continues to divide readers.
“I eat those words like they is food”: The prismatic poetry of Pamela Mordecai
It would be salutary to see critics inside and outside of the academy pick up this book and engage with it thoroughly and thoughtfully.
Griffin Poetry Prize incurs backlash after eliminating its dedicated category for Canadian poets
The elimination of the Canadian category makes it that much harder for domestic poets to access time in the spotlight.
Putting the verse in metaverse: George Murray gets social with a private online network for poets
The new members-only social-media site aims to replicate the café or salon in a virtual environment.
Flight paths: Susan Glickman’s selected essays address poetry, criticism, and taking up art study in her sixties
Glickman’s focus on technique on a granular level reveals her to be a deeply knowledgeable and highly erudite reader of a wide range of poets.
Home and away: the dislocations of place and self in Hoa Nguyen’s A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
The Toronto poet recalls her mother, a former stunt motorcycle rider, and her former home in Vietnam.