In a conversation with Lisa Robertson, (hosted by BookThug and viewable online), Aisha Sasha John observes that an octopus can see with its skin. Tiny organs in the skin of an octopus, disconnected from the brain or eye, swell in response to light, sending waves of colour across the skin’s…| Arc Poetry
Emma Healey. Stereoblind. Toronto: House of Anansi, 2018. I have a confession to make. I dog-ear books I’m reviewing. Reading wherever I happen to be, I crisply fold and tuck a small triangle of the top or bottom of pages I may end up quoting or referencing. I know. I’m…| Arc Poetry
John Barton’s books include Polari, For the Boy with the Eyes of the Virgin: Selected Poems, Seminal: The Anthology of Canada’s Gay-Male Poets, We Are Not Avatars: Essays, Memoirs, Manifestos, and, most recently, Lost Family: A Memoir (sonnets), a nominee for the 2021 Derek Walcott Prize, and The Essential Derk…| Arc Poetry
Saemah Mushtaq, Catherine St. Denis, Rob Taylor, Cassandra Eliodor, Claudia Yang, Ellie Sawatzky, Georgio Russell, Andrea Scott, and Dominique Bernier-Cormier| Arc Poetry
A Tour in the Garden of Earthly Delights by Damen O’Brien Pickup Fifty-Two by David Barrick Fulgura Frango (or How to Count to Infinity) by Dominique Bernier-Cormier Career Day by Joseph Kidney Telling the Bees by Larissa Andrusyshyn Nine Months, at 34 by Lianne O’Hara A Song, or Call by…| Arc Poetry