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A Conversation with Jason Camlot

Jason Camlot is a Montreal-based poet and an English professor at Concordia University. Over the course of his formidable career, he’s published four poetry collections and several academic texts. Camlot’s scholarly research ranges from Victorian literary style to contemporary sound poetry. He runs SpokenWeb, a collaborative research project interrogating literary practices from an interdisciplinary perspective, and has recently published two new books, Phonopoetics: The Making of Early Literary Recordings, and CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event. We spoke with Camlot about the intersection of research and creation, the meaning of the archive, and his many ongoing projects.

New chapbook Another Longue Durée by 2025 Vallum Chapbook Award winner Ian Cappelli

What is a box garden, if not rooted rootlessness? And what else might a prose poem be, but a box for seeding the language of flowers? In this shorthand account of self-consciousness, in which lanky lines à la sestinas slalom a chain of chockablock text, the speaker is swathed in a Québécois troupe from whom he’s also excluded.

Resting (Not Sleeping) from Edie Reaney Chunn’s Postal Work or, Day After Day | Vallum Chapbook Award 2025, 2nd Place

Enjoy the selected poem from Postal Work or, Day After Day by Edie Reaney Chunn, winner of 2nd place in the 2025 Vallum Chapbook Award.

Luckett Creek, 2010 from Laura Amsel’s Weathering Pen | Vallum Chapbook Award 2025, 3rd Place

Enjoy the selected poem from Weathering Pen by Laura Amsel, winner of 3rd place in the 2025 Vallum Chapbook Award.

FEATURED REVIEW The Waste Land Project reviewed by George Elliott Clarke

T.S. Eliot’s modernist poetic suite, The Waste Land, of 1922, was born of the Götterdämmerung that was The Great War. Its voices (personas) recount the loss of faith, the rubble-proven absurdity of European (colonial) ‘superiority,’ and the brazen (sexual) amorality afflicting its civilzation, i.e., the displacement of Jesus by jazz, of classicism by capitalism, and of law-and-order by the orgasm.