Recent interviews
- An Interview with Angeline Schellenberg Sharon Caseburg: Congratulations on your most recent award nomination. You’ve had such a wonderful reception to Tell Them It Was Mozart, having won both the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry and the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for best first book. Now you’ve been nominated for the ReLit Award for Poetry. How does it feel to have so much attention placed on such a personal body of work? Angeline ...
- An Interview with Richard Osler Clarise Foster: In Hyaena Season the poems reflect a range of personal revelation and experience — your youth, relationships, family, your journeys to Africa, your work with addictions. But to start at the beginning—the first poem in the book is “Baptism.” I am always curious about the piece a poet chooses to begin a collection, especially a first full-length collection. Why did you choose this poem and ...
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A Conversation with Ben Ladouceur In fall 2016, Ben Ladouceur, who is prose editor at Arc, interviewed Jan Zwicky as part of a feature on her work. Zwicky wanted to know what Ladouceur thought about some of the issues that came up — millennials shrugging over climate change, self-promotion through social media — and they began a conversation in the margins of the interview. That discussion got interesting enough that they decided to pursue ...
New poetry
- It’s Always Winter When Someone Dies New snow / Mother’s high heeled boots track / a path to nowhere. / / ...
- Snow Day Through the kitchen window, I watch you / shoveling what the plow left. You are talking / to the neighbour and I ...
- Well Preserved When you were born / I canned thirty-six jars of plum tomatoes. / They followed me for seven years / until I ...
- Sleeping Buddies I search the medicine cabinet / for melatonin — my pineal gland / doesn’t produce enough for me. / I’ve ...
- Wanishkaa: The Story Hunter’s Lovesong , that the sun’s visit is so much like his smile. I want to tell him that his smile is the sun, but remember that we ...
Essays and reviews
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Review: Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes by Jennifer LoveGrove LoveGrove’s greatest accomplishment in the work is the deft blending of the horrifically specific — the details of things gone wrong and the inevitable, self-preserving drawing inwards that accompanies trauma and innocence’s end — with the general wistful ...
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Review: The Description of the World by Johanna Skibsrud Skibsrud’s poetry is most compelling when the language is concrete rather than abstract. For example, the startling poem “They Will Take My Island” is a narration of the dismantling of the self, a process that begins with the narrator’s ocean surroundings and ...
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Review: Ekke by Klara du Plessis
Therefore Therein All There Is Is There: A Review of Klara du Plessis’ EkkeEkke is a patient book, despite the urgency of its contents, and a helpful1 book, despite the importance of the difficulty its demonstrations pose. Its opening poem (“First of all ...
