Poetry as Mirror
Winter 2008. Vol. 30 No.3
Inside this issue there are feature interviews with poets Jim Nason and Jan Conn, who talk about the reflections of the body in their writing; the second instalment of “Formally Speaking” by poet Maurice Mierau; new work by familiar poets like John Barton and less familiar voices who are equally arresting in their ability to contour the body. This issue also includes new work by world renowned Franco-Manitoban poet J.R Léveillé.
Online content from this issue
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by Jim Nason
How time knelt down. And the deer hit my car like a thud of earth. About the elongated whirl of...
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by Jan Conn
I am writing all this down—sheared asphalt, groves of mango and saman, two white crosses moored by the highway, side-by-side,...
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by Stephen Rowe
The land has given up, lain down sulking for miles, refusing to stand up to the heavy press of snow....
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by Dina Cox
Limned with hoar frost an alien geography speeds past car windows, a lingering half-moon fades into the white-blue ...
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by Bren Simmers
all the things we let in to the soft tissue of our bodies— car alarms, pesticides, oxygen. Some chosen; some...
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by Anna Swanson
1. FIVE DEGREES Somewhere a man with expensive eyeglasses parses the smell of water from a shelf of small clear...
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by Robert Gore
Imagine a big man, the kind you find in the district of the upper hand and you’ll know my...
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Interviewed by Clarise Foster
Clarise Foster: The Fist of Remembering, published by Wolsak and Wynn in 2006, is your second collection of poetry. If...
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Interviewed by Sharon Caseburg
Sharon Caseburg: In addition to being an award-winning poet, you are also a research scientist and geneticist. Given your varied...