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Poetry

Harm’s Way

By Maureen Hynes

The title poem of Maureen Hynes’s second collection depicts the book as a sort of travel narrative for Amazons: “Some of us wear a piece of the road as an amulet/over our breastbones.” The book’s ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Dove Legend

By Richard Outram

Beginning Dove Legend, the newest collection by award-winning Toronto poet Richard Outram, is a little like entering a foreign language. Outram’s conventional poetic forms and strict rhymes, combined with his use of archaic language, will ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

On Abducting the ‘Cello

By Wayne Clifford

While still a University of Toronto student, Wayne Clifford shared the 1967 E.J. Pratt Award with Michael Ondaatje. He was present at the creation of Coach House Press, and has written 10 previous books, including ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Camber: Selected Poems

By Don McKay

Much of Don McKay’s work over the last 20 years, collected here in Camber, reconfigures the traditionally lyrical response of a poet to the natural, or non-human, world. Where a Romantic poet might be left ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

I Knew Two Métis Women

By Gregory Scofield

Never mind Canada’s French-English “founding nation” idea: Métis people are the founding nation. Created out of mixed cultures – French or Scottish fur traders married to Cree women – and combining precolonial and colonial history, ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Against Paradise

By Shawna Lamay

With the publication of her second book of poetry, Against Paradise, Edmonton poet Shawna Lamay positions herself within that long literary tradition of English-speaking writers inspired by Venice. The book crosses many genres, blending poetry, ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Halfway to the East

By Marusya Bociurkiw

Throughout her first collection of poems, Halfway to the East, Marusya Bociurkiw, a Vancouver-based media artist, displays the gifts of a first-rate social observer.Bociurkiw is mainly concerned with two subjects, the immigrant and the gay ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry