PRESENTED BY JM DRAMA ALUMNI & THE REGISTRY THEATRE A free event, part of Ontario Culture Days. What do an encaustic painter, a classically trained ballerina, a pensive poet, and […]

reviewed by Caitlyn Carr In the fall of 2020, Arleen Paré’s nineteen-year-old grandson moved into the basement of the home she shares with her wife in Victoria. While witnessing his struggles with …

Read Daydreaming In The Anthropocene, a poem by Chris Banks. Explore poetry that moves, inspires, and connects. Part of ONLY POEMS' curated collection.

A few weeks ago, I managed to get up to Toronto to see the Summer launch of five brand new chapbooks from the mighty Anstruther Press. Jim Johnstone, editor and publisher, was gracious enough to an…

reviewed by Chris Banks “I took a word from a word and the word was still full of words so I took another and another and just when I thought I might have too many I realized that every word I’d ta…

Chris Banks asked Selena Mercuri, Reviews Editor for The New Quarterly, a series of questions about the state of reviewing in Canada and the answers were fascinating. You are in for a treat! Tell u…

Larry Levis’s collected poems tell the present moment to go to hell.

reviewed by Courtney Bates-Hardy We Gladly Feast on Those Who Would Subdue Us is Roxanna Bennett’s fourth poetry collection with Gordon Hill Press. As a longtime Addams Family fan, I was intrigued …

reviewed by Chris Banks I’ve been spending the last few days reading Bruce Taylor’s We Drove All Day For This: New And Selected Poems out now with Signal Editions, and I’ve been really struck by th…

reviewed by rob maclennan Further to the first season of the relaunched Gaspereau Press comes Whitehorse, Yukon poet and editor Jamella Hagen’s full-length second poetry collection, Perfect Weather…

But when a mind climbs down from its high craggy lookout we know it is truly a stubborn thing, & has to leaf through pages of dust & light, through…

Read Chris Banks, featured poet published on ONLY POEMS. Explore their portfolio of poems, and get insight into their work via an extensive interview.

Canadian Poetry Reviews & Essays

Chris Banks is an award-winning, Pushcart-nominated Canadian poet and author of seven collections of poems, most recently Bureau of Useless...

About three weeks ago, I read a news snippet where scientists are starting to theorize that dark matter—what is essentially invisible and makes up approximately 85% of the universe—might just be gr…

by Chris Banks I do not usually write short poems, poems under ten or twelve lines, let’s say, because to do the short poem well requires a lot of thought, compression of words and ideas, and ultim…

reviewed by Edward Palmer There is a theory of creativity buried inside Farhang Book II, and it arrives in one of the most unsettling images in recent Canadian poetry. The prisoner Farhang, broken …