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International LiteraturePoetryThe Colophon

Poems of love and protest combine in Claude McKay’s piercingly relevant 2022 collection Harlem Shadows

June 13, 2025June 13, 2025

These poems testify to the range of McKay's emotive field.

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CanLitPoetryThe Colophon

“We is all we have”: Science, nature, and politics intertwine in Derek Webster’s National Animal

June 6, 2025June 14, 2025

The poems in National Animal do not cleave to unidirectional pieties about nature or the resilience of humankind.

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CanLitPoetryThe Colophon

“Mondays are bait days”: The harsh landscape of Chris Bailey’s rigorously unsentimental second collection

April 25, 2025April 25, 2025

In Bailey's case, his subject is virtually inexhaustible, because the setting is inexhaustible.

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AwardsPoetryThe Colophon

And then there were none: Griffin Poetry Prize unveils a five-book shortlist devoid of Canadians

April 23, 2025April 23, 2025

If deep-pocketed institutions and organizations – and prizes – in this country aren't doing enough to support and elevate Canadian poetry, then it's up to the rest of us.

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CanLitPoetryThe Colophon

David Stones, Stratford, Ontario’s first poet laureate, has plans to bring poetry to the people

April 21, 2025April 21, 2025

"The poet laureate role to me is to bring poetry to the people and the people to poetry."

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Horrible landlords and abrasive seas: The sombre and fleetingly optimistic vision of Karen Solie’s Wellwater

April 11, 2025April 12, 2025

If there is any obvious hope to be found in the sombre and desolate poems on offer in this collection, it is in the perseverance of nature in the face of violence and peril.

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AwardsPoetryThe Colophon

Americans dominate the Griffin Poetry Prize longlist amid threats of annexation from the U.S. government

March 19, 2025March 19, 2025

Fully seven of the ten longlisted titles are published by American houses.

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CanLitPoetryThe Colophon

John Ford and Clyde Barrow on the road to Key West: The rugged melancholy of Michael Blouin’s Hard Electric

March 7, 2025March 7, 2025

These are not a young man's verses; they are the ruminations of someone in the twilight of middle-age.

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CanLitPoetryThe Colophon

Beyond death and grief, Molly Peacock finds colour and calm in her new poetry collection, The Widow’s Crayon Box

November 6, 2024November 6, 2024

There is ambiguity here, but also a plaintive recognition of very human emotions that are often denied or ignored by people frightened by their complexity or contradictions.

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The worlds of therapy and nature operate in tandem in Melanie Siebert’s long poem Signal Infinities

August 16, 2024August 16, 2024

Siebert's empathetic approach to her material is admirable and she has the capacity for cutting observation.

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