By: Andy

Hey! Another really rad group of Canadian poets to look into are Amber Dawn, Leah Horlick, and Vivek Shraya! They recently went on tour together and all three have written amazing work. AD has the collection How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir, about being a queer sex worker in Vancouver and growing up in Fort Erie. Also, AD is precious as hell and a generally fabulous person. (She also has a novel, Sub Rosa, which is one of my faves). Vivek Shraya has a couple of books, I’ve only read She of The Mountains which juxtaposes Hindu stories with personal anecdotes about being bisexual in Edmonton, and being in a relationship with a lady who is also bisexual, but the pair is read as hetero and it talks about bi erasure in a really cool way!
And with Leah, I’ve only ever heard her perform, not read any of her work, but she is a fab performer.
Another sweet thing to check out: Floyd VB, a nonbinary gendervoid pal who writes neat poems about being trans and queer.

Happy poem reading <3