Campanello’s prose poems
using slant rhymes with a zingy freshness of diction that stops the poems from ever sounding like trans-lationese
this powerful debut collection combines a passionate exploration of self with an awestruck confrontation of wilderness
been overlooked or dismissed as mediocre
crackling with an unmistakable intelligence and intensity of utterance
p a u s e by J.R. Carpenter Thirza Clout Campanello’s prose poemsPublished 31st January 2026 p a u s e. by J. R. Carpenter is an expansive, durational meditation on land, language, and attention, unfolding through the sensory and political textures of Treaty 6 Territory. Informed by Indigenous thought, ecological intimacy, and the formal constraints of fragmentation, the work balances lyric perception with reflective rigor. Carpenter maps the rhythms of walking, listening, and witnessing across shifting seasons,