My favourite poetry book is Jorge Luis Borges’ Selected Poems. Graham’s Settler Education in Vallum 13:2. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in Matrix Magazine and PRISM International, and her reviews appear regularly in Vallum: Contemporary Poetry. She is currently pursuing a masters in translation studies at Concordia University, where she is researching the auditory features of French poetry. Megan Callahan is a freelance writer and translator from Montreal. My only advice is to live in the present as much as possible, and to fully appreciate the good times when they happen. When the future feels so unstable, it’s easy to lose sight of what’s happening in the day-to-day. 2016 was a difficult year, and I think many of us are looking ahead with concern and trepidation. I Wanted To Be the Knife cuts deep, and I’ll definitely be keeping my eyes open for more of Sutterlin’s work.ģ. Her voice is genuine, relatable, and comfortably intimate, and I couldn’t help but laugh and cringe and ache right along with her. I was unfamiliar with Sutterlin’s work, and I was immediately grabbed by her awkward, erotic, and painful explorations of love and sex. I happened to pick up Sara Sutterlin’s I Wanted To Be the Knife at a book fair this winter, an extended edition of a booklet published in 2015. Funny and compelling, and imbued with empathy, Casteels’ collection definitely stood out for me this year.Ģ. Each page offers a glimpse of an eerily familiar world, where robots and magic elevators are juxtaposed with bleak suburbia and office work. The collection is a wonderful blending of the strange and the ordinary, the mundane and the magical, and it was a pleasure to lose myself in Casteels’ surreal and dreamlike poetry. Casteels’ The Last White House At the End of the Row of White Houses, his first full-length book of poems. We asked them:Ģ) What was your Discovery of the Year? andġ. To help us say goodbye to the year, we asked more than 20 recent contributors to tell us what made 2016 a special year for them. And, after seven previous nominations at the National Magazine Awards, this year we celebrated a Gold Award with David McGimpsey for his poem “The High Road.” We were also happy to add two new chapbooks, Sonnets on a Night Without Love by Yusuf Saadi and String Practice by Jan Zwicky, to our chapbook series. This year saw the launch of Vallum: Contemporary Poetry issues 13:1 and 13:2. 2016 was (for all its difficulties) an exciting year for poetry.
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