The debut full-length collection from Christina Shah contains ground-level poetry of the mundane, quotidian world
Shah eschews the elevated pretensions of mock epic or otherwise self-indulgent poetry.
“So much more than I ever bargained for”: Billy-Ray Belcourt’s third book of poetry examines the body through language and history
The extent to which the body, for a queer Cree writer, is tied into an ongoing history of displacement, dispersal, and disappearance is at the centre of Belcourt's writing.
Simon & Schuster to publish memoir by Kamala Harris in September
S&S is no stranger to publishing major political books across both sides of the aisle in the U.S.
Poems of love and protest combine in Claude McKay’s piercingly relevant 2022 collection Harlem Shadows
These poems testify to the range of McKay's emotive field.
“We is all we have”: Science, nature, and politics intertwine in Derek Webster’s National Animal
The poems in National Animal do not cleave to unidirectional pieties about nature or the resilience of humankind.
“Mondays are bait days”: The harsh landscape of Chris Bailey’s rigorously unsentimental second collection
In Bailey's case, his subject is virtually inexhaustible, because the setting is inexhaustible.
And then there were none: Griffin Poetry Prize unveils a five-book shortlist devoid of Canadians
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.
David Stones, Stratford, Ontario’s first poet laureate, has plans to bring poetry to the people
"The poet laureate role to me is to bring poetry to the people and the people to poetry."
Horrible landlords and abrasive seas: The sombre and fleetingly optimistic vision of Karen Solie’s Wellwater
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.
Americans dominate the Griffin Poetry Prize longlist amid threats of annexation from the U.S. government
Fully seven of the ten longlisted titles are published by American houses.