2021 Chapbooks

Something Spectacular

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"In Nadia Froese’s Something Spectacular, you begin in a restless garden that holds its breath, but then find yourself thinking about what a fence can mean, and how you ought to mind your house more carefully. Soon enough, you’re in the middle of a book of poems that feels like a fabulous Leonora Carrington painting. There’s an angel that holds an ice cube to a forehead, a bittersweet conversation between a granddaughter and grandmother, and a bowl of pomegranate seeds to snack on. Froese’s Something Spectacular is a beautifully surreal poetic meditation about what it is to live, to dream, to sleep, and then to move between these worlds of waking and sleeping with a curious and observant mind. We search for meaning in our daily lives, but the poet invites us to think of the journey itself as the ‘place’ where the spectacular things and moments live."   
     -Kim Fahner

​"incredible i say. and nadia froese says what do you mean? well, i say, your poems tell the future i read one yesterday and today it came true. nadia froese says no i am not psychic and they are not even poems, they are just dreams i wrote down. we both turn to look at the river, but the river is a garden. i say look you have turned the water into leaves and the leaves are telling you to sleep can you not hear them? they are saying nadia froese you have to sleep so that there will be more of your spectacular poems."
     -Jade Wallace

"Something Spectacular is just as its title suggests. Froese's poetry has a unique propulsive energy, an invisible and inevitable rhythm that pushes you forward and forward and forward. Once I started reading, I couldn't stop. Dream or reality, horse or lake, no matter who is speaking and when, it is true. These poems pulse with a vital and sleepless logic."
​     -Conyer Clayton

Ordinary Eternal Machinery

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"What is to become of the old saints and icons? Here, Jeremy Luke Hill makes poetry of the prose of poets—rethinking, rereading, recontextualizing in a necessary and self-reflexive dialogue that is conscious of its own flaws but presses on anyway toward all the disparates of the world."
     -Ben Robinson

"Jeremy Luke Hill engages Ordinary Eternal Machinery with Beautiful Losers in contrapuntal fashion, alternating between poems excavated from Cohen’s provocative novel and essays incorporating Nyman’s insightful feedback, an approach passing through both apologia and critique to arrive at a deeply considered, earnest, and multivalent reflection on an infamous entry in the Canadian canon. This blending of voices and critical distances engenders accountability through confession as much as analysis, engagement through exposure, and celebration in subversion. Hill carefully reorients us to Cohen even as he is forever enshrined as a culture hero, adding much needed nuance to our ongoing relationship to this prominent figure by using Cohen’s own words to demystify and reform his mythology. A work of inventive homage and open cannibalism, I commend Ordinary Eternal Machinery to lovers and skeptics of Cohen alike."
     -Kyle Flemmer

Zipless

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"Catherine Lewis’ Zipless wears femme armour. These poems are fortified by Valentino stilettos and sundresses in August’s heat. The thick-skinned and vivid voice firmly leads the reader to fertility clinics, first dates and Pride parties.  Zipless leads us further still—into the complex positionality of a mature polyamorous Asian bisexual navigating a queer world that is often too narrowly-focused to see her multitudes. Lewis widens the landscape of queer poetics, punching 4-inch-deep heel marks into the ground as she goes."
​     -Amber Dawn

"In this brief volume, Catherine Lewis articulates the emergence of writer and lesbian from the burnt offerings of her intended ordinary life. When the expected abandons the narrator, her eloquent quest for joy begins. Affirming, moving, intelligent poetry. Open your heart and read."
​     -Joanne Arnott

"In Zipless, Catherine Lewis invites us to stride many miles in a pair of Valentino heels. By crafting a poetics around experiences of failed fertility treatments, dating queer in a middle-aged, racialized body, and lack of cultural and ‘intrafamilial consensus,’ she carefully ‘unzips’ the ways we can attempt to love somebody, or ourselves, and how to continue to hope when those avenues lead to an end without closure. Poignantly heartbreaking and tenacious, this debut is a courageous embrace with honest wisdoms."
     -Isabella Wang

A Meditation on the Life of Pyotor Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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"Judoing the Projective Verse of Charles Olson through homage to––not Tchaikovsky but––Pytor Ilyich, David White, like Anne Carson, performs that deft knack of the profound scholar/poet whereby you find yourself sipping tea across from Sappho or can smell the musk at Pytor’s throat juggling ‘unboiled water / he requested from the restaurant.’ Note the warmth of the synaesthetic love letter at your fingertips as its contained ‘brass proclaims the triumph / against darkness / provisional:’ White is a ferociously alive poet at his very best, as here, when on fire."
      -Kevin Heslop

"I wondered how David White would follow up his incredible Local Haunts. And this is it—something evocative, heart-rending, and beautiful."
​     -Jason Dickson

2021 Four-Pack

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2021 Four-Pack (ecopy)

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