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AwardsPoetryThe Colophon

Two Canadians shortlisted for the 2023 Griffin Prize; Scribner U.S. launches a poetry imprint

April 19, 2023April 19, 2023

Iman Mersal and Susan Musgrave are featured on the five-book Griffin shortlist.

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PoetryThe Colophon

Xanax Cowboy, the subversive debut book of poetry from Hannah Green, melds linguistic acrobatics and formal control

April 6, 2023April 8, 2023

The question of how closely the narrator of Xanax Cowboy cleaves to the poet is one of the overarching aspects of the book.

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AwardsPoetryThe Colophon

Griffin Poetry Prize reveals its 2023 longlist under new selection rules; only two original works by Canadian poets make the cut

March 15, 2023March 16, 2023

Haida Gwaii poet Susan Musgrave is one of only two Canadian authors of original works on the ten-book longlist for...

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CanLitPoetryThe Colophon

Poetic form gets exploded and reshaped in two recent volumes from River Halen and Otoniya J. Okot Bitek

March 2, 2023March 2, 2023

The notion of making oneself "legible" to oneself and others is at the centre of Halen's project.

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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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