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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Imprecise Curvatures of the 20th Century: R. Kolewe’s The Absence of Zero
…entire collection, which is an extended meditation on interruptions, knowledge, and other “scraps of the 20th century” (“1.1.3.3”).
R. Kolewe. The Absence of Zero. Toronto, ON: Book*hug Press, 2021.
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Past Winners
…TurnerTanis MacDonald Read Judge Susan Gillis 2021 Feature Review Whose Voice Are You Resounding? Marilyn Dumont Brief Review Ambivalent Inheritance: my yt mama by Mercedes Eng Carolyn NakagawaMercedes Eng Read…
Past Winners
…& “A Different Kind of Person” Jennifer Baker Judge Bardia Sinaee 2021 Winner Kaytlyn invites me to a party Dessa Bayrock Honourable Mention Neither Miriam Tepper Judge Sheniz Janmohamed 2020…
Kitchen
…to roof-of-mouth treat. Mean— that woman who arbitrates when to bestow, when to withhold. Blue the dog doesn’t know chocolate apart from the smell and why not? She who trusts…
A Raw Look at Life: Sharon McCartney’s Villa Negativa: A Memoir in Verse
…Memoir in Verse. Windsor, Ontario: Biblioasis, 2021.
Although the style of her work defies categorization, a first reading of the poems in Villa Negativa gives the impression of a
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David Ly
David Ly is the author of Mythical Man (shortlisted for the 2021 ReLit Poetry Award) and Dream of Me as Water (2022, Fall), both published under the Anstruther
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Claudia Coutu Radmore
Claudia Coutu Radmore’s latest collections are Rabbit (Aeolus House, 2021) and Park Ex Girl (Shoreline Press, 2021). Past President of Haiku Canada, her Sweet Vinegars will be published shortly
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Liam Burke
Liam Burke (he/him/himbo) lives in Ottawa, Canada, on unceded Algonquin Anishinaabe land. He is most recently the co-author of Orbital Cultivation with Manahil Bandukwala (Collusion, 2021) and machine dreams
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Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi
Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi (They/Them) is a queer, Iranian born, Toronto-based Poet, Writer and Translator. They were shortlisted for the 2021 Austin Clarke poetry prize and 2022’s Arc Poem of
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Charlie Petch
…was named “Best of 2021” by The Walrus. Their film with Opera QTO, Medusa’s Children, is launching in June 2022. They have been featured on the CBC’s Q, the Toronto…
Frances Boyle
…has 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]
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