Lisa Robertson's Boat may be considered part of a sequence or what is called a “stage,” a version of a print before it has reached its final form.| Arc Poetry
1. Find your entropic grudge pavilionthe driver’s vestiges, petrol and knuckle paint.take directions from a dark purpling branch.this way to the swamp rave. the salamander roller derby.mechanical rodeo for shrikes and barn swallows.tremble arenas raising hairs for luck. invite the zebra mussels,emerald ash borers, girls with missing front teeth.nobodies from…| Arc Poetry
My mother was born to a wayward tribe / of women whose hands were always / in the shooing motion| Arc Poetry
Clare Goulet’s first poetry collection, centered on the North American lichen, is a wonderful attempt at decoding etymological symbols through poetry.| Arc Poetry
Ellie Sawatzky reads “On Crete” Dad and I are sweet to each other, knowingMom’s not here to be our mediator. We’ve nevertraveled just the two of us. Every daydark clouds rove the olive groves outsideour Airbnb. The cold, chemical-bright surfaceof the pool jumps at the invasion of raindrops,raises helpless fists.…| Arc Poetry
Emily Austin’s Gay Girl Prayers is full of “strange women” behaving in ways that queer readers will find familiar.| Arc Poetry
You Still Look The Same is Farzana Doctor’s debut poetry collection. She writes about women’s experiences at mid-life. In our 40s and 50s, perhaps, there is the almost requisite tendency to look back—to childhood, to trauma, to wounding—that comes with age and life experience, with perhaps having more years behind…| 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
you is a long poem written in French that uses the form of the polyhedron to represent the complexities and multi-faceted nature of love and relationships.| Arc Poetry
Erin Moure’s incredibly complex and beautiful poetry collection, Theophylline: A Poetic Migration transmits ideas of three American modernists.| Arc Poetry
This clear, concise collection of verse focuses on family, both past and present. The approach is clearly stated in the title poem of the book, “If I Were a River,” in which the author begins, “I’d flow between this world / and a parallel universe / where my departed dwell.” …| Arc Poetry
It is often said that an essential quality of poetic writing is its immunity to translation. As Dante wrote in his Convivio: “nothing harmonized according to the rules of poetry can be translated from its native tongue into another without destroying all its sweetness and harmony.” Dominique Bernier-Cormier would, I…| Arc Poetry
Kim Fahner’s Emptying the Ocean is a feminist narrative modelled on Irish immram tales traditionally featuring men. Men in immram tales are often expelled from monastic communities for violent acts like rape or murder. Their chance at redemption comes through pilgrimage across the ocean to distant islands, whereas women banished…| Arc Poetry