Celebrating National Poetry Month in Canada: MQUP Poetry Roundup

“Resilience is geographical, spiritual, historical. It’s the fight against climate change, the inner battle with mental health, the outcry for human rights and an end to systemic racism. Resilience is the backbone of generations of trauma, the silence at the dinner table, the bow to culture’s violin. Resilience is the courage to start each day anew.” League of Canadian Poets, NPM 2021

Yielding the first full month of spring, April also brings forth National Poetry Month in Canada. The League of Canadian Poets, a professional organization for established and emerging Canadian poets founded in 1966 to nurture the advancement and promotion of poetry, invites us to join them in celebrating the 23^rd National Poetry Month with this year’s inspiring theme of “Resilience.”

To celebrate the occasion, we have compiled a list of some of recent and forthcoming poetry titles from the MQUP Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series. Launched in 1998, this series is named in honour of the late Hugh MacLennan, acclaimed Canadian novelist and a poet in his own right. Exploring the human experience, historical memory, and the wonders of the natural world – among other things – these poetry collections offer inspiring and courageous reminders that resilience comes in varying forms.

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Forthcoming Titles:

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The Tantramar Re-Vision

By Kevin Irie

Lyrical poems of the solitary and celebratory in which nature is both paradise and purgatory.

Forthcoming July 2021.

 

 

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whereabouts

By Edward Carson

Poems that navigate the emotional intelligence of the heart and mind.

Forthcoming July 2021.

 

 

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Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete

By Eleonore Schönmaier

Island life carries on while a beautiful woman lies in a coma surrounded by friends and lovers.

Forthcoming June 2021.

 

 

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Ripping down half the trees

By Evan J

A poetic confrontation with the structures of oppression in Ontario’s remote northwest.

Forthcoming June 2021.

 

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Unbound

By Gabrielle McIntire

A debut collection that re-enchants our eyes and hearts to the sublime wonders of our precarious natural world.

Forthcoming June 2021.

 

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Titles Published Since Spring 2020:

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The Milk of Amnesia

By Danielle Janess

Haunted by the inherited memory of war, one woman’s unyielding search through disrupted history and time.

The Milk of Amnesia, Short Film

 

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Check

By Sarah Tolmie

Poems about confirmation bias: expect it to be true, it’s true.

 

 

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Side Effects May Include Strangers

By Dominik Parisien

Poetry that explores the beauty of themes often considered undesirable – pain, disability, and the aging body.

 

 

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A House in Memory
Last Poems

By David Helwig

A collection of unpublished poems by a distinguished poet and novelist.

 

 

 

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rushes from the river disappointment

By stephanie roberts

Lyrical field notes exploring tests of courage in relationships from a bold emerging voice in Canadian poetry.

 

 

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A Different Wolf

By Deborah-Anne Tunney

A critical, poetic celebration of Alfred Hitchcock’s life and work.

 

 

 

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For more great poetry titles, visit the full Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series.