Contemporary Canadian
Contemporary Canadian literature, primarily things published in the last 5 years by a Canadian author, or older, but relevant to current times
Jerome Ramcharitar, The Riddle of Three Crimson Doors
Jerome Ramcharitar’s first full-length collection touches on a familiar nerve with static electrically charged bliss.

Patrick Grace, a blurred wind swirls back for you
Patrick Grace caresses the line between romance and desire with long, knowing strokes.

Karen Schindler, The Sad Truth
Few poets in Canada glimpse half the eyeful of beauty Schindler evidently beholds.

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

Rose Maloukis, Cloud Game with Plums
Rose Maloukis is indecipherable, but has rhythm—her poetry must be crackable.

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.

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

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

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.

Misha Solomon, Full Sentences
A fluid interplay of satire, literary devices, facetiousness, darkness, memory, imagination, and implication.
