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Poetry
Interviews with poets and scholars of poetry about their new books.
April 5, 2026
Light Year
And in the room we could hear the ocean waves, breaking against the history of ourselves. So concludes the first poem in Light Year (Nine Arches …
March 27, 2026
Foretokens
'Unearthed in a clear-out, a picture calendar she’s kept– hoarding, I’ve learnt, is a mark of the emigrant –across continents and time.'So begins Sara…
March 25, 2026
Common Sense (1776), Addressed to Today's Citizens of America
This powerful work by award-winning poet Crystal Simone Smith exposes the uncomfortable truth about America’s founding text: while Common Sense is cel…
March 16, 2026
The Whole Earth Is a Garden of Monsters / Toda la Tierra Es Un Jardín de Monstruos
This award-winning bilingual collection intertwines the lives of a Renaissance painter and a modern migrant worker, offering a fresh perspective on ar…
March 13, 2026
What we know so far is...
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Conor Mc Donnell about his long poem, What We Know So Far Is...(Wolsak & Wynn, 2025). The Irish …
March 4, 2026
Cycle of Dreams and Piers Plowman: A New Annotated Edition of the A-Text
My guest today is Eric Weiskott, Professor of English at Boston College. Eric has previously published Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650…
February 28, 2026
The Book of Alice
Winner of the 2025 James Laughlin Award from The Academy of American Poets When her grandmother died, poet Diamond Forde inherited a well-worn fam…
February 27, 2026
nightstead
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with acclaimed Calgary, Alberta poet David Martin about is new collection, nightstead (Palimpsest Pres…
February 17, 2026
My God's Been Silent
My God’s Been Silent (Writ Large Press, 2026) is a poetry collection that lives at the intersection of faith and fury, grief and grace. Written in the…
February 14, 2026
The Character Actor Convention
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Toronto poet Guy Elston about his debut poetry collection, The Character Actor Convention (Gordon…
February 13, 2026
The Colosseum Book of Contemporary Narrative Verse
Narrative verse, or poems that tell a story, has existed for millennia, yet the mode of writing has been neglected by literary publishers, editors, an…
February 9, 2026
The Book of Interruptions
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with poet Khashayar "Kess" Mohammadi about their new poetry collection, The Book of Interruptions. In …
February 1, 2026
Ajar
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with poet Margo LaPierre about her poetry collection, Ajar (Guernica Editions, 2025). The poems in Aja…
January 20, 2026
Woman Life Freedom
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Bänoo Zan and Cy Strom about their anthology, Woman Life Freedom: Poems for the Iranian Revolutio…
January 17, 2026
A History of England in 25 Poems
This is the history of England told in a new way: glimpsed through twenty-five remarkable poems written down between the eighth century and today, whi…
December 26, 2025
Son of the Shoah
As a third generation Holocaust survivor, this was an important conversation with a second generation survivor. Marty has been conducting workshops on…
December 21, 2025
NMLCT
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Paul Vermeersch about his new collection of poetry, NMLCT (ECW Press, 2025). Fables and fairy tal…
December 19, 2025
Poets, Patrons, and the Public: Poetry as Cultural Phenomenon in Courtly Japan
Waka poetry was all the rage in tenth-century, courtly Japan. Every educated person composed it, emperors and consorts sponsored it, and societal inte…
December 6, 2025
Fight Or Flight
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery interviews Andrew Fadyen-Ketchum about his poetry collection, Fight or Flight (Stephen F. Austin State UP, 20…
December 3, 2025
What Kind of Daughter?
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery interviews acclaimed Alberta poet Rayanne Haines about her book, What Kind of Daughter (Frontenac House Press…