Anxiety, identity, and illness characterize three recent books of poetry by Canadian authors
Egg Poets is the collective name of a quintet of writers.
“The unsaid, for me, exerts great power”: Nobel laureate Louise Glück is dead at age eighty
The Wild Iris won the Pulitzer Prize; the 2014 collection Faithful and Virtuous Night won the National Book Award.
The way a child hides: hope, humility, and forgiveness underpin the new collection of poetry from Kate Cayley
As a poet, Cayley is particularly good at juxtaposition often manifested as subtle or not-so-subtle shifts in tone and tenor.
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.