John Ford and Clyde Barrow on the road to Key West: The rugged melancholy of Michael Blouin’s Hard Electric
These are not a young man's verses; they are the ruminations of someone in the twilight of middle-age.
Beyond death and grief, Molly Peacock finds colour and calm in her new poetry collection, The Widow’s Crayon Box
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.
The worlds of therapy and nature operate in tandem in Melanie Siebert’s long poem Signal Infinities
Siebert's empathetic approach to her material is admirable and she has the capacity for cutting observation.
A new volume of interviews provides an interesting – if proscribed – view of Canadian poets and poetry
Jones's preference for selecting elder statesmen and women generally omits a broad range of voices that have helped push Canadian poetry out of the confines of its colonial past.
Grief, memory, and formal playfulness combine in new poetry from Dallas Hunt and Catherine Owen
Owen is a lyric poet who delights in working within traditional forms.
Exile, anxiety, and intimations of mortality course through two new collections of poetry, from Maria Stepanova and Myna Wallin
Holy Winter is as much about the practice of writing poetry, and its place in a riven world, as it is about exile and anxiety over geopolitical fractures.
Two veteran poets explore the ineffable by way of the tangible and everyday
Both volumes contain references to the Hebrew word "hineni," translated as "here I am."
George McWhirter makes a Griffin shortlist otherwise devoid of Canadian names
Last year was the first under the new prize regime.
Toronto poet Matthew Walsh’s second collection is a fragile negotiation with the confusion and worry of how to be fully human in our modern world
The approach to poetry and the world is tinged with surrealism and not a small dollop of humour
George McWhirter and Emilie Moorhouse appear on a Griffin Prize longlist dominated by Americans
This list, selected by jurors A.F. Moritz (Canada), Jan Wagner (Germany), and Anne Waldman (U.S.), will not do much to mollify critics of the new prize regime.