The poems in this first collection offer convincing evidence for the old saying “two heads are better than one.” Twice the range of knowledge, passion, humour, and imagination results in a daring book with dazzling imagery and language that titillates the eye, ear, and mouth, and the dictionary-seeking hand. MA|DE comprises Mark Laliberte and Jade […]| Arc Poetry
In Erasing Frankenstein: Remaking the Monster, a Public Humanities Prison Arts Project, editor Elizabeth Effinger compiles an innovative collaborative project that adapts Mary Shelley’s classic Frankenstein into a long-form erasure project created by the Erasing Frankenstein Collective. The Collective is comprised of federally incarcerated women, University of New Brunswick students, and members of the Walls […]| Arc Poetry
Nina Berkhout mines the fodder of daily life for truths of the human condition, and offers them to us in her latest collection, The Great Wake. These are poems that at once bring a sense of mindfulness in the now, while highlighting the urgent reality of our mortality. Each of the book’s four parts touches […]| Arc Poetry
Andy Weaver’s The Loom is probably the best book of poetry I’ve read in a few years. Subtly meandering through, stacking up, and repeating several key motifs—most centrally parenthood—the book strikes that rare balance between incredibly strong poems and a unifying poetry-project conceit. Several themes and formal techniques stood out to me. The book begins […]| Arc Poetry