we climb down the manhole / where history waits, and we can read / its layers or at least imagine them

From a balcony overlooking an urban back lane, a poet watches those walking below – their identities ...

A hometown is a data centre / where the past is stored

From a darkly humorous perspective, this book charts a young person’s navigation of narrow definitions of faith, femininity, and family.

Confronting ...

In the night her whitened toes / cold sole on his calf / between his palms he warms / a slender foot – / twig bones, taut skin.

Jean Van Loon’s father was a metallurgist in an Ottawa lab that contributed ...

they come flying out from under your expectations / and once opened it is rain / and thinking a sandbar / always inventing a different script / never where you left it

This dream book of kaleidoscopic, ...

Silence in the belly of the breathing house. Night so deep / it’s reaching through rooms as if searching its pockets.

Standing in the midst of her childhood home, Margo Wheaton was struck by two things: ...

Holmes entered the cabinet / of the respectable reverend / (who was in fact a closet naturalist) / and found so many Victorian things.

In the early 2000s flarf poetry emerged as an avant-garde movement ...

Subtler, subtler, beat our hearts / down aisles of cluttered glitz.

Unbecoming, Neil Surkan's sophomore collection, clings to hope while the world deteriorates, transforms, and grows less hospitable from ...

The past grabs back / what it lets us handle

Bitter in the Belly reckons with suicide’s wreckage. After John Emil Vincent’s best friend descends into depression and hangs himself, fluency and acuity ...

The leaves of paper / butterfly-wing thin / let light stream through / only one side of each.

If “poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead,” as Seamus Heaney put it, Earth Words breaks bread ...

I've lived the way a field is sometimes / a shelter for mice / or sometimes a source of game / for a hawk

Inspired by the literary landscape of the late poet John Thompson, Kevin Irie's The Tantramar Re-Vision ...