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PoetryThe Colophon

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

January 7, 2023January 7, 2023

Eliot's vision of a fallen world blighted by urban decay and a somnambulant populace continues to divide readers.

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CanLitPoetryThe Colophon

“I eat those words like they is food”: The prismatic poetry of Pamela Mordecai

September 29, 2022January 3, 2023

It would be salutary to see critics inside and outside of the academy pick up this book and engage with it thoroughly and thoughtfully.

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AwardsPoetryThe Colophon

Griffin Poetry Prize incurs backlash after eliminating its dedicated category for Canadian poets

September 12, 2022September 12, 2022

The elimination of the Canadian category makes it that much harder for domestic poets to access time in the spotlight.

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CanLitPoetryTechnologyThe Colophon

Putting the verse in metaverse: George Murray gets social with a private online network for poets

April 20, 2022June 14, 2022

The new members-only social-media site aims to replicate the café or salon in a virtual environment.

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CanLitCriticismPoetryThe Colophon

Flight paths: Susan Glickman’s selected essays address poetry, criticism, and taking up art study in her sixties

March 3, 2022June 14, 2022

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.

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CanLitPoetryThe Colophon

Home and away: the dislocations of place and self in Hoa Nguyen’s A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure

December 14, 2021June 14, 2022

The Toronto poet recalls her mother, a former stunt motorcycle rider, and her former home in Vietnam.

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FilmInternational LiteraturePoetryThe Colophon

Newly published poem by Vladimir Nabokov delves into the personal life of the Man of Steel

March 4, 2021June 14, 2022

“The Man of To-morrow’s Lament” imagines Superman’s angst at not being able to live a normal life after marrying Lois Lane.

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CanLitPoetryThe Colophon

Poet George Murray launches Walk the Line, a pair of workshops to teach beginning and intermediate writers the craft of verse

December 16, 2020June 14, 2022

The former St. John's, Newfoundland, poet laureate is looking to demystify poetry and convince people that anyone has it in them to write verse.

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