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Best Canadian Poetry 2019 Launch
By the time I reached Massy Books for the launch of Best Canadian Poetry 2019, all the chairs had gone. That’s understandable — it’s a…
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Julia Cundari
Reflections on disembodiment: little poems, by Julia Cundari.
The outbreak of Coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19) has triggered the practice of social distancing, enforced self-isolation, and quarantining around the world. Consequently, Western capitalist cultures are buckling…
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Kyla Jamieson
To conflate Kyla with the "I" of the poems is to get her wrong again.
I keep being wrong about Kyla Jamieson. I first saw her at a reading, where I was struck by her fierceness. Her poetry was biting…
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Samantha Marie Nock
Decolonial love! Radical Reciprocity! Tenderness! Care!
Samantha Marie Nock is a Cree-Métis woman whose family is from Sakitawak (Île-À-La-Crosse), North Saskatchewan. She has been living, working and writing in Vancouver for…
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Adèle Barclay
"on a chart that roughly maps / the gender spectrum / I select femme and dirtbag / instead of masc and dapper."
Adèle Barclay clearly has an effect on people. When I go into a bookshop to ask for her latest volume of poetry, Renaissance Normcore, the…
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Chelene Knight
Growing Room Literary Festival
CanLit is about to be rewritten, and Room Magazine’s Growing Room Festival curator, Chelene Knight, is ready to shape the new story. But growth isn’t…
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Tin Lorica & Savannah Erasmus
A Personal Take on Comedy
If the whole point of comedy is that it is relatable, how does one make a minority experience funny? For Tin Lorica and Savannah Erasmus,…
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RAHILA’S GHOST: A GROWING FAMILY OF POETS
“looking backwards to forwards on the relationships in my life links the idea of chosen family to the press”
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POETRY IS BAD FOR YOU
MAKING BAD COOL AGAIN
“If someone’s laughing during your poems, it’s cause you tickled them.”