At Odds with Tragedy
Summer 2006. Vol. 29 No.1
“At Odds with Tragedy” features an interview by poet and CV2 Editor Nina Berkhout with the author of Blue Feast, Shawna Lemay, about the darker side of inspiration, and an essay by George Murray, who was in the vicinity of the World Trade Towers in New York on that now infamous day of terror—September 11. Governor General Award winning author Karen Connelly writes about the epidemic of violence of women, and new poetry by Jennifer Still, Barry Dempster, Judith Krause and many others.
Online content from this issue
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variations on a glosa on the fourth anniversary of 9/11
by Judith KrauseHard to believe this day is here again, though some feel the passage of time whenever they look into the... -
why not
by Shawna LemayWe’re not going anywhere exotic we’re staying put. I keep making sincere and ludicrous pacts with myself eat more fruits... -
rules for writing poems about hurricane katrina
by Erin MurphyYou may include memories of nickel nights at the Brazil, or the Tulane student you dry-humped in an alley one... -
jardins
by Cécile OumhaniLa nuit au cercle des retrouvailles . . . Transparentes tes mains renées à l’enfance et ton regard clair, porcelaine... -
parfum
by Cécile OumhaniL’été avait une odeur de lait. La table de bois nu ouvrait sur des infinis de cimes et de lumière.... -
on gaspereau road
by Marilyn IwamaWe can’t count the Cree, the Mi’kmaq and Métis and Haida women who have disappeared. Some turn up on... -
girlwood: a treasury for the lost (excerpts)
by Jennifer Still* If I had the chance, I’d ask the world to dance. —Billy Idol It was as if the... -
joyriding
by Sonja GreckolToo young, they decided, and lined up the high school at the yellow buses and took them to the funeral... -
mything pieces
by Murray Reiss1. My Grandmother’s Hair In the early 1940s, a brisk trade emerged between German death camps and German felt... -
walking the dogs
by Sandra LambertThe dogs tug on their lines like fish They pull me off balance, damn I swear like my father... -
moon-sliver
by Malca Litovitz and Elana WolffSame sliver of moon we saw in Paris leaning over the Louvre, shadows on the waters of the Seine. Same... -
love poem
by Ann ScowcroftYour brother has left his wife fallen for a younger woman we could be watching the rerun of a made-... -
library book sale
by Barry DempsterAt first glance, the used-book sale is a swathe of hope, all those rumoured-to-be-lost words laid out in their innate... -
impact
by Billeh NickersonOne passenger believed it was her husband, the ship’s jolt just another expression of their love. Others thought it was... -
slip
by Jennifer Londryfall backwards repeat the past try to hang onto the present close your eyes on the edge of saying something,... -
wishing well
by Sachiko MurakamiMy fist holds as many coins as I can carry. All are stamped with the Queen’s effigy; Elizabeth, D. G....