poetry in canada 8/13/21 poetry in canada 8/13/21

Lisa Robertson

This curious empathy leads to an emotion of form, but not without awkward pauses and stumbles, a slapstick which all the while suggests a particularity of duration, occasionally melody.

poetry in canada 8/13/21 poetry in canada 8/13/21

rob mclennan

I’m thinking about sentences, I’m thinking about the prose poem, I’m thinking about friends and social concerns and civil rights and the ecological precipice; our small children go rushing past.

poetry in canada 8/13/21 poetry in canada 8/13/21

Adam Sol

My poetics is always in conflict. On the one hand, I’ve had a pretty thorough education in American Modernism, and I work in academia, so I value complexity, allusion, the gaps in meaning that generate mystery and music.