We are honoured to share a new chapbook titled WHAT’S IN A NAME? by Jan Jorgensen, Brian Campbell, Sherine Elbanhawy, Mark Foss, Ethel Meilleur, Claire Sherwood, and Blossom Thom. “The poems within this chapbook found their genesis in two separate sessions of a four week workshop called ‘What’s in a Name?’ held during the Covid […]
Congratulations to Vallum’s chapbook award winners 2026!
Vallum is so pleased to congratulate the winners of this year’s Chapbook Award!
Congratulations to all three poets for their outstanding work.
2026 Vallum Chapbook Award Shortlist
We’re honoured to share the shortlist for the 2026 Vallum Chapbook Award.
Each manuscript: a world. Each poet: a force.
Thank you to all who submitted.
Poems from the Crowd 2026 is now available!
A digital issue of contemporary poetry.
Download it for free.
Happy reading!
New chapbook titled Shooky Session 2: Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks, 12 May 2023, Parc Trenholme by Jason Camlot and Stuart Ross
We are honored to share a new chapbook titled SHOOKY SESSION 2: FRANZ KAFKA, THE BLUE OCTAVO NOTEBOOKS, 12 MAY 2023, PARC TRENHOLME
by Jason Camlot and Stuart Ross
…each creature carries a means of hearing that reflects the environment…one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall.
—Franz Kafka, from The Blue Octavo Notebooks
THE DAY I MADE IT TO HARVARD by Amlanjyoti Goswami | Poem in Re-view
Check out our Poem in Re-view section featuring the great poem THE DAY I MADE IT TO HARVARD by Amlanjyoti Goswami
What’s It All For? Poetry, Partnership, and Parenthood on Bowen Island
An Interview with Poets Daniel Cowper and Emily Osborne, and Reviews of Cowper’s Kingdom of the Clock (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025) and Osborne’s Safety Razor (Gordon Hill Press, 2023)
by Bill Neumire
Almost to the point of absurdity, What’s it all for? is the central question of our lives; it echoes deep in all other questions, catches us in the car as we realize we’ve been working too much and forgetting what we’re working for, whispers to us as we make our art.
OAHU by Maureen Korp | Poem in Re-view
Check out our Poem in Re-view section featuring the great poem OAHU by Maureen Korp.
A Conversation with Jason Camlot
Jason Camlot is a Montreal-based poet and an English professor at Concordia University. Over the course of his formidable career, he’s published four poetry collections and several academic texts. Camlot’s scholarly research ranges from Victorian literary style to contemporary sound poetry. He runs SpokenWeb, a collaborative research project interrogating literary practices from an interdisciplinary perspective, and has recently published two new books, Phonopoetics: The Making of Early Literary Recordings, and CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event. We spoke with Camlot about the intersection of research and creation, the meaning of the archive, and his many ongoing projects.