I’m thrilled to have two poems in the latest anthology from The Chaos Section Poetry Project ‘What We Hold On To’ A big thank you to the Editors Nick Allison and Rachel Armes-McLaughlin for their patient help and work on this, and thanks to to Melissa Lemay for hooking me into this. You can obtain a PDF from The Chaos Section Poetry Project Paperback copies are coming soon – purchase of the print copy helps cover the cost of this wonderful project 😀
What We Hold On To brings together voices navigating grief, uncertainty, love, resistance, and the daily work of staying human. Created as a shared space for reflection and resilience, this collection gathers poets writing from lived experience—illness, parenthood, anxiety, joy, protest, and hope.
In uncertain times such as these, these poems do not offer easy answers. Instead, they linger in kitchens and bedrooms, in quiet moments and hard conversations, in the small rituals that help us keep going when the world feels unsteady.
Through witness and tenderness, humour and resolve, this collection traces the ways we cope, connect, and carry on—together.
Paul Vincent Cannon
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