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Yusef Komunyakaa

...curious, doubtful, stubborn, damning and self-accusing, asserting itself against the never-tiring devastation wrought by history, its testimony ‘good as making a wager against the eternal hush.’ Alter egos, second selves...

David Harsent

...into the foot of your stocking. Next, it’s your face coming free of the summer dress, as you greet yourself in the mirror. Here’s how it goes after that:         foundation,...

Ian Williams

...first English-language collection of short fiction, a finalist for the ReLit Prize for poetry, and was named as one of ten Canadian writers to watch by CBC. Williams completed his...

James Pollock

...we come to know, in part, through the poet’s evocation of a rich company of tutelary spirits: Glenn Gould and Northrop Frye, Henry Hudson and C.P. Cavafy. Quietly confident, formally...

Jennifer Maiden

...century share the stage with politicians, terrorists, dissidents and fictional creations from our continuous present. Combining a free-wheeling, meditative style with crisp, lucidly elegant lines, Maiden’s philosophical verse investigates the...

Anne Michaels

Anne Michaels is the author of three highly acclaimed poetry collections: The Weight of Oranges which won the Commonwealth Prize for the Americas; Miner’s Pond which received the Canadian Authors Association Award and was...

Anne Carson

...see it coming / well didn’t you / what I saw coming was the atomic essence of the Visible brought to such density its Incandescence left no place for anyfuckingthing...

Tomasz Różycki

...no one sees it’s false. Winter comes slowly, frost pricks the window, pricks it and draws blood. Copyright © 2013 by Mira Rosenthal, translated from the Polish written by Tomasz...