Spaces are not exterior to bodies. They influence and affect the way bodies exist in the world. A quarry is an unnatural place within a natural territory. At any moment, it can be abandoned. A body is not separate from the spaces it...

Sometimes it seems like there are as many definitions of poetry as there are poems. Coleridge defined poetry as “the best words in the best order.” St. Augustine called it “the Devil’s wine.” For Shelley, poetry was “the record of the...

Pin Pricks is a collection of deceptively simple poems and aphorisms, each of which expresses an understanding of what it means to be human in this high-tech, global age. The poems leap from urban first world concerns to third world...

In Panicle, Gillian Sze makes her readers look and, more importantly, look again. It's a collection that challenges our notion of seeing as a passive or automatic activity by asking us to question the process of...

Nokum Is My Teacher is the poetic story of a young aboriginal boy, posing questions to his grandmother, his "Nokum", about the wider world beyond the familiarity of their home and community. Through a series of questions, Nokum guides...

“All the world is a narrow bridge,” states Rabbi Nachman of Bresnov. “The important thing is not to be afraid at all.” These poems, Barbara Pelman’s third collection, explore bridges both real and metaphoric: the bridge connecting...

Dérouté par des amours fuyantes, le poète s’investit dans une topographie du corps masculin. Il délaisse ses jardins et ses rêves étoilés, parcourt des lieux de rencontres, tant virtuels que réels. Bains vapeurs, voyages, sites Internet...

Shortlisted for the 2016 ReLit Award

Dazzling collection of masques from Manitoba Book of the Year– and Walrus Poetry Prize–winning author.

Monologue Dogs is a series of contemporary dramatic monologues. Every “...