Dear Traces community,
We’re excited to release the third issue of Traces Journal: All Saints 2025.
This is our most jam-packed issue yet, and the first issue we’ve put together as an editorial team. Over the next four weeks, we’ll be releasing poetry, reviews, interviews, and essays from new and returning Traces writers.
Special Features
Each new issue of Traces Journal will now include a “special feature” of one of our contributors, highlighting their work throughout the issue’s rollout. This autumn, we are excited to highlight the work of
, whose poetry and critical writing has appeared widely across Canada, the US, Ireland, and the UK.Over the next four weeks, we will be publishing critical and creative work by and about Daniel Cowper. This week, check out EIC
’ interview with Cowper about his new book, parenting, Canadian culture, and the life of an artist.The Midnight Sun: A Conversation with Daniel Cowper
Daniel Cowper’s poetry and critical writing has appeared in numerous publications in Canada, the US, Ireland, and the UK. His poems have been collected in The God of Doors (winner of the Frog Hollow Press Chapbook contest) and Grotesque Tenderness (MQUP, 2019). His latest work is Kingdom of the Clock, a novel in verse about urban life. He is a contribut…
New Reviews
Contributing editor, Bret van den Brink, reviews A.F. Mortiz’s Great Silent Ballad: Poems (House of Anansi Press, 2024). Moritz is the 2025 winner of Canada’s prestigious Al and Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize.
Book Review: "Great Silent Ballad" by A.F. Moritz
Great Silent Ballad: Poems by A.F. Moritz (House of Anansi Press, 2024)
New Poetry
We have another great lineup of Canadian poetry coming your way. Check out these new poems from Jesse Keith Butler, Jessica Walters, Mirjana Villeneuve, and more!
Stay tuned next week for more new writing from our editors and contributors.
Happy reading,
Maya Venters, EIC, & the Traces team
