Vallum is so pleased to congratulate the winners of this year’s Chapbook Award!
Congratulations to all three poets for their outstanding work.
2025 Vallum Chapbook Award Shortlist
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?