Rob Taylor is the author of five poetry collections, including Weather and The News. He is also the editor of What the Poets Are Doing: Canadian Poets in Conversation and Best Canadian Poetry 2019. Rob teaches creative writing at the University of the Fraser Valley, and lives with his family in Port Moody, BC, on the…| Arc Poetry
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
Cassandra Eliodor is a second generation Haitian-Canadian writer from Ottawa. She was the 2024 winner of the McNally Robinson Booksellers Poetry Award, with work to appear in Prairie Fire in the summer.| 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
Andrea Scott’s poetry has appeared in various literary journals and public projects. Scott won the 2024 CV2 Foster Poetry Prize, and the 2022 Geist Erasure Poetry Contest. Scott’s first chapbook, In the Warm Shallows of What Remains, won the 2024 Raven Chapbooks Poetry Contest. She lives in Victoria, BC.| Arc Poetry
The editing process of Maureen Hynes' poem "Wing On" is discussed in detail in this insightful article by John Barton.| Arc Poetry
We feature poetry that is woozy, cunning, shearing and wildlike; and prose that offers new perspectives on the verse you thought you knew.| Arc Poetry
Rob Taylor reads “Harrison River Valley, November” First the salmon are a smell, then a sound, then dorsal fins: a symphony of miniature Jaws fast cuts. Eagles gorge upon the living, seagulls tug apart the nearly dead. Our children stand transfixed. We offer them our meagre facts. A belly-up chinook…| Arc Poetry
My mother was born to a wayward tribe / of women whose hands were always / in the shooing motion| Arc Poetry
Andrea Scott reads “Saucer Magnolia” I marked my lost pregnancy and my last one, all in one shot.Out front I planted a sapling—magenta saucer magnolia—and, beside the root ball, the living baby’s placenta. The midwife said her husband wanted it out of their freezer, and sooner than later.My preteens played…| 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
Catherine St. Denis reads “The Essential Involvement of the Harpist” “Only pain is intellectual, only evil is interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.” — Ursula Le GuinAs a child, I thought acid rain would…| Arc Poetry
Catapulted souls, the dead need obituary. Hollow musings, the dead take self- portraits. Unbidden ghosts, the dead chase hearses.| 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
Mark Frutkin has published ten novels, four collections of poetry, and three works of non-fiction. In 2007, his novel, Fabrizio’s Return, won the Trillium Prize for Best Book in Ontario and the Sunburst Award. In 1988, his novel, Atmospheres Apollinaire, was short-listed for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction. His…| 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
Anne-Marie Turza's Fugue With Bedbug, offers instruction to the reader on how to approach the work, thinking of both the “fugue” and the “bedbug” as active notions in the form as well as the content of the poems.| 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
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
Dear Mahsa by Ava Fathi Of Eccentric Orbits by Jennifer Houle In Which Alberta Plays the Old West (Not So Much in the Way That Angela Hewitt Plays Bach as in the Way That a Dog Plays Dead) by Joseph Kidney The Bottle Depot by Tonya Lailey Bad Mango by…| 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