Irina Moga
Canadian author
May 1 , 2026 — Quantum wins the The 2026 International Poetry Prize of the Claudine de Tencin Academy
Le 1er mai 2026 — Quantum gagne le Prix International Poésie de l'Academie Claudine de Tencin
New Release
Quantum
(2025)
Quantum (DarkWinter Press, 2025) is a collection of poems meant to anchor readers in light-heartedness and serenity. One of the themes in the book is the view that poetry can be perceived as a field of creative energy, whose quanta surround us and in which we can immerse ourselves via the mediating power of daydreaming. Poetry is the deconstruction of reality and its recompilation into an alternate paradigm, guided by intuition, aesthetics, and the quantum mechanics of one’s own imagination. In Quantum, the author moves us through layers of sensorial cues and a discourse whose ultimate goal is healing - an everyday catharsis for life’s tough moments, held in balance by the power of words.
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In short, this is a quite exquisite poetry collection, employing resounding and surprising word combinations that tap into the the heartfelt core of what it means to live on this earth.
Irina Moga's Quantum is, frankly, a must read for writers, storytellers, poets and language lovers everywhere.
David Stones, Poet Laureate of Stradford, ON.
From Verse Afire,
January 2026
Nature has crept in and will take over. Moga captures distance and intimacy in tandem. Thus, in that expert crafting, she captures her reader.
Moga writes down to the quantum level, to the most minute and discrete texture of being. Her poetry bevels down, navigating and capturing within her final lines exchanges and the spaces between measurable steps of relationship.
And in the grotto of these exchanges and spaces, that is where the reader connects with what cannot typically be grasped or quantified.
Through mechanical style and sensorial cues, Quantum brings its reader through the ache of life to a place of humility that soothes pain and gives us something visceral and spiritual in appreciating those blinks between heartbeats.
Sara Hailstone, Managing Editor for Great Lakes Review, Aug 14 2026
Praise & Reviews
Through mathematical concepts, natural imagery, and personal reflection, Irina Moga's Quantum is an intricate and introspective exploration of the boundaries we perceive in life, the inevitable passage of time, and the things that always seem just beyond our reach. These poems convey that our understanding of the past, our identity, and ourselves is fleeting and incomplete.
Yet, there is beauty in this impermanence, as memory and experience shape us in ways that are both profound and elusive. The more you read these poems, the more
multifaceted they become, revealing new patterns and meanings-much like discovering deeper levels of detail in a frac tal. Each poem in Quantum draws you further into its mysterious orbit, offering an experienc e that is both intimate and expansive, cerebral and sensory
Crystal S. Gibbins, author of Now/Here and editor of Split Rock Review
Part bird, part human, the two elegantly attired creatures on the cover of Irina Moga’s Quantum hold an open book in one hand, and with the other pluck fruit, heartstrings, and other rhythms from a colourful garden of earthly delights. These colourful figures forage for sounds, metaphors, bookmarks, and greenery. Moga’s four-part harmonies involve sentences, line breaks, spacings, and a backwash of sound; her atmosphere of seasons: a cadence of clouds, a Russian doll of memory, and staccato on random support points.
Quantum leaps and clasps quintessential elements to embrace the poet’s sixth sense.
Michael Greenstein, retired professor of English (Université de Sherbrooke), author of Third Solitudes: Tradition and Discontinuity in Jewish-Canadian Literature.
From The Seabord Review of Books, December 2025
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