In I’mpossible collab, Klara du Plessis suggests that essay writing is a form of speculative collaboration between authors. This precise and thoughtful collection includes literary criticism on contemporary Canadian poets, including Jordan Abel, Oana Avasilichioaei, Dionne Brand, Anne Carson, Kaie Kellough, Annick MacAskill, Erín Moure, M. NourbeSe Philip, and Lisa Robertson. du Plessis renders the philosophical preoccupations and stylistic clues of these deeply influential writers, from critical distancing through language and word play, the function of documenting and aestheticizing, feminine volatility as a form of omnipresence, to a reimagining of the book. As a full-length expansion of the chapbook Unfurl, I’mpossible collab is an interpretative critical project and illustrates the vitality of poetics, finding writers and texts in ongoing dialogue.

Purchase: Gaspereau Press, 2023

Reviews

“Klara du Plessis, I’mpossible collab.” rob mclennan. rob mclennan’s blog. 4 March 2024.

Interviews

“rob mclennan: 2024 VerseFest interviews: Klara du Plessis.” periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics. 18 March 2024.