Reading List: National Poetry Month 2023
April is National Poetry Month in Canada – a month to explore all corners of the diverse and ever-expanding gamut of the literature. To celebrate, we’ve complied a reading list of six of our poetry collections that we’re revisiting this month!
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By Jason Camlot
In the early 2000s flarf poetry emerged as an avant-garde movement that generated disturbing and amusing texts from the results of odd internet searches. In Vlarf Jason Camlot plumbs the canon of Victorian literature, as one would search the internet, to fashion strange, sad, and funny forms and feelings in poetry.
By stephanie roberts
rushes from the river disappointment traverses city, country, and fantasy using nature as artery through the emotional landscape. As they wrestle to come to terms with the effects of uncertainty and grief on hope and belief, these diverse field notes affirm love and desire as treasures while turning an unblinking gaze on the failures of courage that distance us from love.
By Daniel Cowper
Finding beauty in intimate failures and regrets, Daniel Cowper’s debut poetry collection speaks for an unrooted age, for unrooted people. The musical and kinetic energy of Grotesque Tenderness is driven by our urge to understand pain and our hunger to reach an imperfect reconciliation with the problems of guilt and suffering.
By Sarah Tolmie
This collection of poems is a traditional ars moriendi, a how-to book on the practices of dying. Confronting the fear of death head-on, and describing the rituals that mitigate it, The Art of Dying takes a satirical look at the ways we explain, enshrine, and, above all, evade death in contemporary culture.
By Julie Paul
To seek belonging, to strain against the familiar – these are the polarities many of us live between, feeling the pull of each desire. Offering a particular history, an intimate vantage point from within the various kingdoms we inhabit, Julie Paul’s The Rules of the Kingdom is an exploration of this struggle on a personal level and a universal one.
By Benjamin Hertwig
Slow War is at once an account of contemporary warfare and a personal journey of loss and the search for healing. In his debut collection, Benjamin Hertwig looks at the war in Afghanistan with the unflinching gaze of a soldier and the sustained attention of a poet. In his accounting of warfare and its difficult aftermath on the homefront, the personal becomes political.
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