ArticlesAriel Gordon
Ariel Gordon is a Winnipeg/Treaty 1 Territory–based writer, editor, and enthusiast. Her latest book is the spec-fic novel Blood Letters, co-authored with GMB Chomichuk (Great Plains Press). Her work was selected for Best Canadian Essays 2025 (ed. Emily Urquhart) and will be in Best Canadian Poetry 2026 (ed. Mary Dalton).
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PoetryThis is what happens when Jonathan Ball aims for “a very normal poetry book”
Winnipeg-based writer Jonathan Ball calls himself the Poet Laureate of Hell, which is Ball in a nutshell: fun, inventive, and kind of dark. For Ball, it signals to readers that he doesn’t write conventional poems. “The weird Venn diagram I’m after is the audience that loves poetry but is sick to death of poetry,” Ball says. -
FeaturesPoetic fragments from non-fiction Namibian travel book grow into their own collection
Peter Midgley could be said to be a hybrid writer – he works in multiple genres, publishing non-fiction, children’s lit, plays, and poetry. “I do not consciously set out to write a children’s story, or a poem,” says the Edmonton-based author. “I write. Sometimes, the form emerges from within the words. Sometimes, it appears in multiple forms.” -
FeaturesVisions of accountability, healing through poetry
In March 2016, Jian Ghomeshi was acquitted of choking and sexual assault charges. Throughout the trial, Halifax-based poet Sue Goyette had been posting on Facebook, expressing her outrage, trying to support her friends.
