Belcourt's works have generally been welcomed with praise and appreciation. CBC featured "This Wound is a World" at the top of their top ten poetry collections from 2017 stating that the book "is memoiristic in approach, perspicuous in style and exacting in its determination to upend genre and form." Leanne Betasamosake Simpson also praised Belcourt's book, choosing it as her favorite book of 2017. In Simpson's words, "Belcourt is a sovereign genius and "This Wound is a World" redefines poetics as a refusal of colonial erasure, a radical celebration of Indigenous life and our beautiful, intimate rebellion." Lisa Tatonetti also praises the book, calling it a "powerful meditation on the intersections of violence, love, and the body."