ArticlesKyla Neufeld
Kyla Neufeld is a poet and editor. She lives in Winnipeg, Treaty 1 Territory.
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PoetryCollection aims to find hope among hard times as trauma is metabolized into poems
This is a difficult time to be human. And yet, When Whales Went Back to the Water, Lisa Baird’s new poetry collection, finds hope amidst the “flash and muck” of trauma. -
PoetryCollection is a ‘love letter for anyone who feels ostracized’
What started off as a university portfolio project has become Bret Crowle’s debut collection of poetry, Jesus Is a Voyeur. “Honestly, it feels simultaneously surreal, unreal, and too real. The idea of publishing a book has been a dream of mine since I was young,” she says. -
Poetry‘Bonded relationship’ to 120-year-old house at centre of new poetry collection
What makes a home? What is the importance of rootedness? Catherine Owen explores these questions in a new collection of poetry, Moving to Delilah. The poems recount the experience of Owen’s move from an apartment in Vancouver to a house in Edmonton, and the new and surprising aspects of owning a home, growing a garden, and participating more deeply in community. -
FeaturesPoet explores geologic formations, nature of the Earth in new collection
David Martin’s new collection of poetry, Kink Bands, is a veritable cave of treasures. It delves into theories of the creation of the Earth and the minutiae of elements that make up geological study. -
PoetryWith six takes on the apocalypse and meditations on anger, Knife on Snow is oddly hopeful
Alice Major’s new poetry collection, Knife on Snow, began with the mysterious appearance of a knife in the snow of her backyard. “Somehow this ordinary, inexplicable object on the untrodden white really spooked me. It also made me realize how much I feel this piece of property is ‘mine.’ -
PoetryCollaboration between photos and poems illuminate search for meaning, magic
Poems and photographs play off of each other to shed light on human existence in Sixty-Seven Ontological Studies: 49 Poems & 18 Photographs by long-time friends Jan Zwicky and Robert Moody. -
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PoetryPoet explores displacement, migration, and colonialism in debut collection
Joanne Leow’s debut collection of poetry, Seas Move Away, weaves together narratives of movement, displacement, migration, and return. “This collection is dedicated ‘to those who move away,’” she says. -
PoetryPoet hopes to help readers understand schizophrenia, treatments, and abuses
For ky perraun, the relationship between poetry and mental illness has been lifelong. “I find [writing poetry] therapeutic and, I hope, it allows the reader insight into another’s psyche and perhaps a sense of shared experience,” she says. -
PoetryJourneys are acts of expectation in Caroline Wong’s new collection
Journeys of all sorts fill the pages of Burnaby-based Caroline Wong’s new collection of poems, Primal Sketches. Wong takes readers stumbling through hiking paths in British Columbia, trudging along the Camino de Santiago, and fleeing down the Yangtze River. She takes readers on journeys through loss, death, diaspora, and finally, hope. -
PoetryCollection comes together through staying with poems, letting themes reveal themselves
For Manitoba poet Sarah Klassen, writing poems is an exercise in waiting. The process she went through for her newest collection of poetry, The Tree of Life, was no different.
