News & Extras
Maunder by Claire Kelly
Feb 5, 2018
These are northern poems—scraps from the end of winter, out of a landscape of hard snow and mud, where “sewers plume,” tulips—and other hopeful, bright things—are “nipped by frost,”
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I have to live by Aisha Sasha John
Jan 26, 2018
This summer I ate a lot of grapefruit. One day on a whim
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Cardinal in the Eastern White Cedar by Roo Borson
Jan 16, 2018
Ever since I read her poem, “Rubber Boots” (1989), which I found in an anthology that would let me teach classic Canadian poetry to first-year university students, I have been enchanted with Roo Borson’s work.
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The Burgess Shale: The Canadian Writing Landscape of the 1960s by Margaret Atwood
Jan 2, 2018
The Burgess Shale is not a typical scholarly work, but instead a transcription of Margaret Atwood’s lecture to the University of Alberta
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#IndianLovePoems by Tenille K. Campbell
Dec 15, 2017
#IndianLovePoems, a poetry collection by Tenille K. Campbell, provides evocative, truthful words about love without silencing her Indigenous perspective.
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Dead White Men by Shane Rhodes
Dec 7, 2017
Canada is so haunted by the spectres of dead white men that they almost seem inescapable, a presence so persistent as to be definitive.
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