Author: ALU Editor
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Poetry Grrrowl: Children Shouldn’t Use Knives + Shirley Camia
Born out of struggle and an obsession with childhood comes Shirley Camia’s dark and deeply personal collection Children Shouldn’t Use Knives (At Bay Press). Shirley sits down with us in today’s Poetry Grrrowl feature to talk more about how the smallest of observed actions inspires her work and how strength can rise from the ashes of innocence lost.
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Poetry Grrrowl: Amanda Jernigan + Years, Months, and Days
Named the Best Poetry of 2018 by The New York Times, Amanda Jernigan’s Years, Months, and Days (Biblioasis) transforms Die Gemeinschaftliche Liedersammlung—a collection of Protestant hymns—into sparse, but evocative lyric poems that meditate on the connection between hymn and poem, and the universal experiences of life, death, hope, and love. Below Amanda tells us about…
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Poetry Grrrowl: One Thing – Then Another + Claire Kelly
In her collection One Thing – Then Another (ECW Press), Claire Kelly explores the feelings that come with moving across the country. From the major shift in environment and economics to the mind-boggling vastness of Canada, Claire shares more on how her own experience moving from New Brunswick to Alberta has influenced the collection and…
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Poetry Grrrowl: Suzanne Zelazo + Lances All Alike
In today’s Poetry Grrrowl, we talk with Suzanne Zelazo about women’s voices in her experimental collection Lances All Alike (Coach House Books), her writing process, and her desired superpower. Keep scrolling to read “Widows in Greenwich Village” from the collection too.
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In Review: The Week of April 8th
National Poetry Month continues with four more rad women of poetry, discounts, and a fun quiz to test your knowledge!
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Poetry Grrrowl: Lyric Sexology Vol 1. + Trish Salah
In this expanded Canadian edition, Lyric Sexology Vol 1. (Metonymy Press), Trish Salah uses poetic sequence to inspire new and creative thought about the languages in which trans sexuality or transgender has been previously imagined. In today’s poetry grrrrowl Q&A, Trish explains the influence of language in her writing process and shares the poem “Eulalia for Mother…
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Poetry Grrrowl: Adrienne Gruber + Q & A
In her third book of poetry Q & A (Book*hug Press) Adrienne Gruber delivers a poetic memoir about pregnancy, birth, and postpartum after the birth of her first child. Divided into chronological sections on each time period, the collection explores the history of pregnancy and birth in North America using prose, lyric, haiku, ghazal, and…
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Poetry Grrrowl: The Brightest Thing + Ruth Daniell
In this dark but hopeful collection The Brightest Thing (Caitlin Press), poet Ruth Daniell takes an honest look at love, relationships and the fairy-tale notion of “happily-ever-after” from a modern day perspective. We sat down with Ruth to talk more about this rad collection and how learning about poetry from a young age has helped…
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Poetry Grrrowl: Kerry Gilbert + Little Red
In her latest Little Red (Mother Tongue Publishing), BC poet Kerry Gilbert examines the Big Bad Wolves of society with a contemporary verse tale of Little Red Riding Hood, one of the most well-read stories of missing and murdered girls and, more broadly, violence against women. We chat with Kerry about how Little Red began…
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In Review: The Week of April 1st
Happy National Poetry Month! This week we launched Poetry Grrrowl: Rad Women of Poetry to celebrate all the badass women poets out there with interviews, excerpts, a (kind-of-difficult) quiz, and free swag. Plus: we’re giving you 15% off all Poetry Grrrowl books all month. Holy, NPM!
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Poetry Grrrowl: Unearthing Secrets, Gathering Truths + Jules Arita Koostachin
In today’s Poetry Grrrowl feature, we chat with Jules Arita Koostachin about her debut book of poetry Unearthing Secrets, Gathering Truths(Kegedonce Press) – an honest and heartfelt collection that courageously brings her face-to-face with her past. In our interview with Jules, below, she shares her experience with writing poetry as a form of meditation and…
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Poetry Grrrowl: On the Count of None + Allison Chisholm
Today’s Poetry Grrrowl feature is Allison Chisholm’s On the Count of None (Anvil Press), a debut collection of poems that borrow inspiration from pop culture and are told with off-kilter humour and an occasional dark edge. Below Allison chats with us about her book and her process for beginning a poem, and shares the poem…
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Poetry Grrrowl: Michelle Sylliboy + Kiskajeyi: I AM READY
With Kiskajeyi: I AM READY (Rebel Mountain Press) — a debut work of poetry from L’nuk (Mi’kmaq) artist and author Michelle Sylliboy, the complex L’nuk language, Komqwejwi’kasikl, is preserved through word art and perfectly paired photographs. Below, Michelle shares her relationship with the language as one that provides a deep connection to ancestral space-time and to the L’nuk landscape which…
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Poetry Grrrowl: Shazia Hafiz Ramji + Port of Being
Poetry Grrrowl begins with debut poet Shazia Hafiz Ramji whose already garnered a lot of attention with her book Port of Being (Invisible Publishing), a collection that mines speech from the city streets and the internet to explore the intersection between the personal and the public, the surveiller and the surveilled. Below Shazia chats with us…
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Poetry Grrrowl: Rad Women of Poetry
This National Poetry Month we’re shouting it out to all the rad women of poetry who write in all kinds of spaces and styles and explore all kinds of themes. Poetry Grrrowl is a raised fist and high-five to those women who make us better readers and thinkers. Join us here on the blog throughout…