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Recent Poetry Publications

Cityscapes in Mating Season, Signature Editions, 2017. Order here or at your favourite bookstore.

“James.” Best Canadian Poetry 2023, edited by John Barton, Biblioasis, 2022.

James. CBC Books, 2021 CBC Poetry Prize Winner. 24 Nov. 2021.

“Fear: Diptych” Arc Poetry Magazine, vol. 97, 2022, p. 56.

“Short History of the Carriage: Red River Cart,” and “Coffin Bone.” The Fiddlehead, vol. 291, Spring 2022, pp 30-31.

“Pipeline Gear” and “Diagnosis.” The Malahat Review, vol. 216, Autumn 2021, pp. 27-29.

“Drumbeg II.” Prairie Fire: A Canadian Magazine of New Writing, vol. 42, no. 3, 2021, p. 27.

“Drumbeg I” and “Let.” The Dalhousie Review, vol. 100, no. 3, Autumn 2020, pp. 370-71.

“Weaselhead Flats.” Canadian Notes and Queries 106, Jan. 2020.

“Talus.” Harold Taylor Prize, Academy of American Poets. Poetry.org. Aug. 2019. Read here.

“Les Rues: Montreal.” The Best Canadian Poetry 2015, edited by Jacob McArthur Mooney, Molly Peacock, and Anita Lahey. Tightrope Books, 2015, pp. 37-39.

Four Poems. Numéro Cinq, Dec. 2014. Read here.

Two Poems. Matrix Magazine, vol. 92, Spring 2012, pp. 27-29.

“Offerings.” The Fiddlehead, vol. 249, Autumn 2011, pp. 30-31.

“That Art.” Prairie Fire: A Canadian Magazine of New Writing 32, vol. 2, Summer 2011, pp. 108.

Creative Non-Fiction, Reviews, and Essays on Writing

“Collaging with Thom Gunn.” Brick, A Literary Journal, vol. 101, Summer 2018.

“Riffled and Recoiling: Jan Conn’s Tomorrow’s Bright White Light. Arc Poetry Magazine Online, January 2018. Read here.

Review of Settler Education, by Laurie D. Graham. Arc Poetry Magazine, vol. 83, 2017, pp. 129-30.

“More Lives Than This Plain Desperation: Carolyn Smart’s Careen. Arc Poetry Magazine Online, December 2016. Read here.

“How Difficult Would it be to Stay Here.” Review of Karen Solie's The Road In Is Not The Same Road OutArc Poetry Magazine, vol. 79, Winter 2016, pp. 121-22. Read here.

Review of Asa Boxer’s Skullduggery. Arc Poetry Magazine vol. 70, Winter 2013, pp. 132-33.

“Lise Gaston on Daisy Fried and Elizabeth Bachinsky.” Lemon Hound, 2013. Read here.

“Snake as Poem; Snake as Snake: On Lorna Crozier’s ‘What the Snake Brings to the World.’” Arc Poetry Magazine, vol. 68, Summer 2012, pp. 63-64.

“How Poems Work: ‘The Hicock Girls in the Front Pew Address the Platypus’ by Patricia Young.” Arc Poetry Magazine Online, 2012. Read here.

Review of Bent at the Spine by Nicole Markotic and Review of You Exist. Details Follow by Stuart Ross. Matrix Magazine, vol. 94, Winter 2012, pp. 45, 47.

“Implications of Impermanence: Moez Surani’s Floating Life.” Arc Poetry Magazine Online, 2012.

Featured Review: Open Wide a Wilderness, Edited by Nancy Holmes. Matrix Magazine, vol. 90, Fall 2011, p. 58.   

“Sinew of Fire and Flint: Lise Gaston on Steven Price.” Lemon Hound, 2011.

“How Poems Work: Lorri Neilsen Glenn's ‘You Think of Meister Eckhart.’” Arc Poetry Annual, 2011.