The Poetical Hub

Since 2021, Jack Mitchell has published a short daily or a long weekly poem in The Hub, the fastest-growing new media outlet in Canada. Here for the first time, Hub readers and poetry lovers can and the best of Jack's poems collected in a handy volume. From biting epigram to touching lament, from cultural commentary to nature poetry, The Poetical Hub has something for everyone. In the Roman poet Martial's words (Poem #99),

All Rome agrees my book is grand,

They love it and they quote;

In every pocket, every hand

Are verses that I wrote.

See how the reader pales and stares,

Blushes and gapes and foams:

My own reaction's just like theirs:

At last I like my poems.