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Contemporary Canadian

Contemporary Canadian literature, primarily things published in the last 5 years by a Canadian author, or older, but relevant to current times

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Patrick Grace, a blurred wind swirls back for you

Patrick Grace caresses the line between romance and desire with long, knowing strokes.

Cover of a blurred wind swirls back for you, Patrick Grace (2023). Turret House Press, Montreal.
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Karen Schindler, The Sad Truth

Few poets in Canada glimpse half the eyeful of beauty Schindler evidently beholds.

Cover of Karen Schindler's poetry chapbook The Sad Truth (2023).
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Lance La Rocque, Glitch

Lance La Rocque, I believe, contains such perspicaciousness and self-awareness. I trust his poetry.

Cover of Lance La Rocque's poetry chapbook Glitch (2020)
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Rose Maloukis, Cloud Game with Plums

Rose Maloukis is indecipherable, but has rhythm—her poetry must be crackable.

Cover of Rose Maloukis' Cloud Game with Plums (2020), a poetry chapbook. Cover shows a stick figure adorned with plums as left by a fountain pen smudge, perhaps.
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Vivian Lewin, Colville Suite for Mixed Voices

Lewin is deft in not only her curation of Colville’s artworks, but in responding to them in verse that is as observational and deliberately meek as the paintings themselves.

Cover of Vivian Lewin's poetry chapbook Colville Suite for Mixed Voices (2021)
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Dale Tracy, The Mystery of Ornament

Dale Tracy is a mastermind of storytelling, daring, and it’s honestly just a really fun, brief read.

Cover of The Mystery of Ornament by Dale Tracy (2020), showing a Persian rug motif the main character intends to purloin; black and white printed on yellow paper.
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Stephanie Bolster, Ghosts

Bolster very much shows her prowess in long stretches of stories in verse.

Cover of Stephanie Bolster’s poetry chapbook Ghosts (2017)
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Cary Fagan, then / here / now / there

He makes it look effortless, but these poems are elastic balls of references, stories and allusions begging to be unraveled.

Cover of Cary Fagan's 2025 poetry chapbook then/here/now/there.
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Misha Solomon, Full Sentences

A fluid interplay of satire, literary devices, facetiousness, darkness, memory, imagination, and implication.

Cover of Full Sentences by Misha Solomon (2022), showing the title of the poetry chapbook and author name in boldface among a wall of typewriter-like text as seen from up-close.
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Monty Reid, Vertebrata

He’s almost athletic in his prowess to extend verse to a whole host of subjects within a narrow scope to achieve his ultimate effect: omniscience through poiesis.

Cover of Vertebrata (2024), Monty Reid, Turret House Press