A.F. Moritz has published his twentieth collection of poems, As Far As You Know (Anansi, 2020).
Vancouver poet Adèle Barclay's second collection is Renaissance Normcore from Nightwood.
Albert Dumont is Ottawa's English poet laureate.
Andre Fenton represented Halifax at 7 national poetry slams across Canada.
Annick MacAskill's Shadow Blight (Gaspereau Press, 2022) won the Governor General’s Award
Where Things Touch (Book*hug) is the first book of Bahar Orang.
A local and much lauded poet, Ben Ladouceur's most recent is Mad Long Emotion (Coach House).
Brandon Wint's first print collection is Divine Animal (Write Bloody North, 2020).
Born in Beijing and raised in Saskatchewan, Chuqiao Yang's poetry has received many awards.
Conyer Clayton's long-awaited debut collection is We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite.
D.A. Lockhart's poems record the common person and the famous in his fourth collection.
Ottawa's David O'Meara's newest moving collection is Masses on Radar (Coach House, 2021).
Dimorphic discovered spoken word in 2008, and has represented Lanark County at 7 national festivals.
Gabrielle Marceau is currently completing a book of poems entitled A Tree in Miami.
Helen Robertson was longlisted for the 2019 Vallum Award for Poetry.
Irfan Ali's debut collection, Accretion is their humility. Faith and cynicism, love and betrayal.
ísta Fanney Sigur∂ardóttir is an Icelandic poet and an artist.
Itinerant poet JR Carpenter lives in Edmonton, where she is the writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta.
For Ottawa poet Jayde, spoken word is an opportunity to reclaim self.
Jennifer Pederson's poetry has appeared in the anthology the bird philomela (battleaxe press), and in in/words magazine.
Johannes Göransson makes "language out of the bleed-through" as you'll see in Poetry Against All (Tarpaulin Sky).
Irish poet and lawyer Julie Morrissy released Where, the Mile End with Book*hug in 2020.
Justin Million's first book EJECTA!: The Uncollected KEYBOARDS! Poems is out now with Apt. 9 Press.
K. B. Thors' Vulgar Mechanics (Coach House, 2019) pushes boundaries of language, trauma and place.
Kaie Kellough experiments in sound and poetry and has authored two sound-poetry recordings.
Kamal Hakim is a Somali-Canadian spoken word, hip hop artist, and entrepreneur from the city of Ottawa.
Karen Solie's most recent collection, The Caiplie Caves (Anansi), was short-listed for the TS Elliot Prize.
Karuna Vellino's chapbook A Year In Violets is acollection of poems that give voice to Karuna's experience with love and identity.
Poet, editor and teacher, Ken Babstock's latest is Swivelmount from Coach House books.
Ken Victor's We Were Like Everyone Else (Cormorant Books) traverses humanity's challenges.
Part of the 2015 Saskatoon Slam Team, Larissa Tarasoff won first place at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word.Â
Laura Kasischke poems work in haunting fragments and visceral snippets in New and Selected (Copper Canyon).
Lindsay B-e's The Cyborg Anthology melds sci-fi and poetry, human and machine.
Margo LaPierre's Washing Off the Raccoon Eyes finds passion in chaotic liminal spaces.
One of Canada's leading haikuists Marshall Hryciuk makes a return visit to VERSeFest.
Berliner Monika Rinck writes poems of pointed social critique. They will make you be more beautiful.
Namitha Rathinappillai published her first chapbook Dirty Laundry with Battleaxe Press in 2019.
Natalie Hanna is the author of the poetry collection lisan al’asfour (ARP, 2022)
Ottawa poet Nicola Vulpe undertakes an intelligent survey of deep history in Insult to the Brain (Guernica).
PEЯFACT is Nicole Raziya Fong's moving, philosophical debut in poetry.
Performer, translator and poet Oana Avasilichioaei writes of surveillance and resistance in Eight Track (Talon).
Pearl Pirie's fourth collection is footlights from Radiant Press.
Philip Metres' latest collection is Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon 2020).
rob mclennan's most recent are A halt, which is empty (Mansfield Press, 2019) and Life sentence, (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019),
Shawn K went to the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word with a poem called Gratitude.
Shazia Hafiz Ramji swept up the prizes with herPort of Being (Invisible).
Rising iterary star Shery Alexander Heinis is the author of Splinter.
stephanie roberts dreams of a compassion-based society and wrote rushes from the river disappointment
Belfast poet Stephen Sexton's If All the World and Love Were Young won the Forward Prize.
Susan Atkinson's debut poetry collection is The Marta Poems (Silver Bow Press, 2020)
Switch Bridges was a member of the CFSW Championship Youth team in 2011.
Vivian Vavassis is a Montréal ex-pat who lives in Ottawa and calls both cities home.
