The Writhing, Wayward Wild West of Hannah Green’s Xanax Cowboy
…performance art exhibit (titled “Crap Factory”), five-act play, hashtag-packed Instagram feed, animated sitcom, mood disorder diagnostic tool, anatomy poster painting series, meditation app user review, and finally, there is an…
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“like mother like daughter like matter like water”: Fire Cider Rain by Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin
…long lived in Ottawa on unceded and unsurrended Algonquin Anishinaabeg territory. Visit www.francesboyle.com and follow @francesboyle19 on Twitter and Instagram. [updated in November 2023] Photo credit for headshot: Miranda Krogstad
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Catherine Lewis
Catherine Lewis (she/her) is a Chinese Canadian writer based in Vancouver. Her debut poetry chapbook Zipless (845 Press) is a finalist for the 2021 Bisexual Book Awards in both
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Archibald Lampman 2023
…We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite (Winner of the 2021 Ottawa Book Award), and many chapbooks, including two with the Ottawa-based poetry collective VII, of which they are a member….
Past Winners
…Read 2021 1st Prize OFFERING Cassandra Myers Read Honourable Mention All Hearts Feed Horses John Elizabeth Stintzi Read Readers’ Choice Medusa Calls the Rape Crisis Line Cassandra Myers Read 2020…
Archibald Lampman Award
…Books 2021 A Different Wolf Deborah-Anne Tunney McGill-Queen’s University Press 2020 Mad Long Emotion Ben Ladouceur Coach House Books 2019 Dividing the Wayside Jenny Haysom Palimpsest Press…
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…of Canadian Poets. His latest book is The Tantramar Re-Vision (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021). He lives in Toronto. [provided for the Arc Award of Awesomeness in May 2023]
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Life in a Magnifying glass: rob mclennan’s the book of smaller
From contemporary politics to contemplations of language, all is shared through mclennan’s innovative and bite-sized prose. Each piece is a minimalist stanza of concise lines made up of short
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Something from Nothing: Gregory Betts’ Finding Nothing: The VanGardes, 1959-1975
…The VanGardes, 1959-1975. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2021.
Betts argues that the abundance of new ideas and models, while flowing into the ostensible artistic void of mid-century
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Dancing Typographies: Derek Beaulieu’s Surface Tension
…published with Coach House Books in April 2021 and a finalist for the A.M. Klein Prize in Poetry. Her first collection Saint Twin (Mansfield: 2016) was also a finalist for…
Zig-zagging through space and time: Salimah Valiani’s 29 leads to love
…to love. Toronto, Ontario: Inanna Publications, 2021.
It is primarily concerned with ecocide, which is defined by Oxford Languages as “the destruction of the natural environment by deliberate or
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