We’re honoured to share the shortlist for the 2025 Vallum Chapbook Award.
Each manuscript: a world. Each poet: a force.
Thank you to all who submitted.
CAUGHT by Angeline Schellenberg | Poem in Re-view
Check out our Poem in Re-view section featuring the great poem CAUGHT by Angeline Schellenberg.
*Poems from the Crowd* is now available!
Explore the poems of contemporary poets for the donation price of $2 CDN (in digital format). We’ve also published a special, limited print edition of 100 copies for this first issue of the series: Summer 2025. ($8) Happy reading!
SKATEBOARD from a chapbook by Thurston Moore and John Kinsella | Poem in Re-view
Check out our Poem in Re-view section featuring the great poem SKATEBOARD from a chapbook by Thurston Moore and John Kinsella.
MORNING by Jeffrey Mackie | Poem in Re-view
Check out our Poem in Re-view section featuring the great poem MORNING by Jeffrey Mackie
PABLO PICASSO VISITS JAMES JOYCE AND THEY DISCUSS YOUTH by Michael Mirolla | Poem in Re-view
Check out our Poem in Re-view section featuring the great poem PABLO PICASSO VISITS JAMES JOYCE AND THEY DISCUSS YOUTH
by Michael Mirolla
Interview by T. Liem with Ockert Greeff // Winner of the 2024 Vallum Chapbook Award (No. 39)
Congratulations on winning the 2024 Vallum Chapbook Award with A Mass Choir of Little Things!
T. Liem: In this work images and memories accumulate with a weighted pace, whole stanzas repeat like time-slowing refrains, and certain words become chant-like as in “A Letter from The Sea” with sea and see. This feels like a particular kind of musicality. Would you talk about where your experience as a drummer intersects with your experience of composing poetry?
Prelude by Jan Zwicky | Poem in Re-view
Check out our Poem in Re-view section featuring the great poem Prelude by Jan Zwicky