POETRY
sulphurtongue
Rebecca Salazar
McClelland & Stewart,
March
Rebecca Salazar creates poetry at the intersection of queer, Latinx, and disability justice issues. The poems in sulphurtongue are acts of hope extended into a variety of debased or toxic environments.
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Intruder
Bardia Sinaee
House of Anansi Press,
April
The world of Bardia Sinaee’s debut collection is fraught with peril and illness. Poems dealing with precarity, the urban environment, and the depredations of history abut a multi-part prose piece about the poet’s experience undergoing chemotherapy in his 20s and a series of poems written during COVID-19 lockdown.