Sublunary by Lisa Richter
(University of Alberta Press)
March 10, 2026
THIS IS THE THIRD BOOK by the Toronto-based poet. Her last one, 2020’s Nautilus and Bone, took the form of an “auto/biography” of Yiddish-language feminist poet Anna Margolin, and became the first poetry book to win both top prizes at the Canadian Jewish Literary Awards and US-based National Jewish Book Awards. In Sublunary, themes in Richter’s previous work, like memory, grief, and absence, re-emerge — this time woven in with references to mythology and Jewish folklore. Always present: the struggles of holding life’s strangeness alongside its joyful and bewildering elements. Jonathan Rothman
