Arc Poetry

When the poet Joseph Kidney visits a cathedral or gallery or museum, I imagine he stands exceptionally close to the art. The striking cover of his debut collection Devotional Forensics certainly suggests intense scrutiny. Of the twelve figures on a medieval rood screen in St. Michael and All Angels Church, Kidney’s book cover homes in […]

For Prince Edward Island-born O’Grady, water is everywhere: in sailings and landings, in rivers, tides and shorelines. His poems are populated by fishermen, water birds, and hermit crabs. A cup of coffee sits “unstirred [like] the black pool of night,” while days spent apart from a loved one “yawn wide as a slough.” Water is […]