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Canthius Issue 13 presents new work from Kathryn Lennon (with a translation by Yilin Wang and Wai-Ling Lennon), Rachel Lachmansingh, Adriana Onițǎ, Julia Rudlaff, Kat Mohr, Tina Do, Rebekah Rempel, Miranda Baker, Sarah Hilton, Hannah Siden, Alice G. Waldert, Catherine St. Denis, Gabrielle Spear, Mahpiya Eagle, Olivia Zarzycki, Sadie McCarney, Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi, Erica Isomura, and Chrissie Minnery.
Artwork by M.E. Sparks.
We’re excited to announce the winners of the 2023 Priscila Uppal Memorial Award for Poetry!
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View the poetry, prose, games, visual art, and more published as part of Canthius Journal’s 2021 Pleasures project.
There’s definitely an encyclopaedic urge in my writing to try to fit everything into a poem, to push against the boundaries of what a poem can contain. I think it varies for each project, but in Crying Dress I rarely sat down to write a poem from beginning to end.
I think every poem has a central element driving it, whether that be the speaker’s voice, a particular set of images, a line break that cracks the poem open, a strange prosody or twisting language, an unsettling way of framing an idea, a striking layout on the page—any of these things can catch my attention.
Ellen Chang-Richardson’s debut poetry collection Blood Belies is a tender and probing examination of how history can be traced through memory, mapping the orientation of the Asian-Canadian experience against the unyielding landscapes of “permafrost and / rust and dirty snow slush.”
The Last to the Party (Gooselane Editions, icehouse, 2024) is an honest and moving debut trade poetry collection by bpNichol Chapbook Award recipient, Chuqiao Yang. Yang navigates the complicated terrains of family, heritage, ancestry, identity, racism, belonging, friendship, grief, love, tenderness, heart, and ferocity, as the book moves from childhood to adulthood.
Stories are often an amalgamation of perspectives and a person’s unique connection to them, resulting from all the stories they’ve lived; Bird Suit navigates multiple perspectives and multiple stories, slowly stitching together a central story that many people hold a piece of.