Stedfast

Finalist, City of Victoria Butler Book Prize
Longlisted, Raymond Souster Award
Longlisted, Fred Cogswell Award For Excellence In Poetry

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art —

Breaking open John Keats’s “Last Sonnet,” Ali Blythe writes marginality into the canon, at once claiming, reviving, and un-fixing the Romantic vision.

Taking place over one night, the poet in bed next to a sleeping lover, Blythe’s revelatory poems struggle with questions of illusion and reality, immersion and ...