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Contemporary Verse 2
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Poetry Only

Spring 2009. Vol. 31 No.4

With this issue CV2 goes poetry, and nothing but poetry, with selections of new work by Robyn Sarah, Paddy McCallum, Jan Horner, Evelyn Lau, Susan Stenson, Jan Conn, Patricia Young, Geneviève Morin, Karl Meade, Johanna Skibsrud and many others.

Online content from this issue

  • After Drinking Too Much Gin

    by Johanna Skibsrud
    When, having showed you out, I sat down at the table again, I kept going, almost to the floor;  ...

  • Sestina on the death of an American icon

    by George Pakozdi
    We both swore we wouldn’t see the new Batman, but then Heath Ledger died. I’m amazed by the outpouring of...

  • 28 spring tide

    by Karl Meade
    Your young volcanic mouth: river, milk, honey. This heat wave, consumed and consuming   your first knot: a heart unraveling,...

  • Cat Scratch Fever

    by Jesse Patrick Ferguson
    Ten spooked claws snagged your skin, and two cross jaws made a mouse of your pink and defenceless thumb, spurring...

  • Photograph of a girl on a slum doorstep in 1912

    by Kate Cayley
    Yes, she sits like that everyday. Yes, she answers quickly when you speak. Yes, she just got it recently, was...

  • Dance

    by Andy Weaver
    the mind of the hunting hawk. thought can be as hard to move as a rusty red wheelbarrow. that person...

  • Your Eight Storied Heaven

    by Angela Hibbs
    Dante’s book is where we left it. Not even the wind turns its pages. I wanted to be limpid so...