The best way to describe Limón’s poetry, perhaps, is saturated: Emotions run through it undiluted and her language is simple, yet full to bursting. Bright Dead Things is laced with these qualities.

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The 5 best poetry collections of 2022. ... This year’s best collections offer a variety of pleasures — dreamlike landscapes, linguistic playfulness, traditional forms and experiments in style.

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States of Emergency is a book-length poem that examines the apocalyptic nature of the present day using language both prophetic and colloquial.. Comay is a Toronto-based poet and musician. His EP ...

I have to declare an interest and say that my favourite poem about the British countryside, "Adlestrop" by Edward Thomas, lies outside the shortlist and the anthology; but what we present here ...

His novels and poetry have earned international acclaim, and he was the first Canadian ever to win the Man Booker Prize — in 1992, for the wartime story The English Patient.