The Jilted Issue
Spring 2008. Vol. 30 No.4
“The Jilted Issue: poems of love lost / Se faire larguer: poèmes d’amour perdu”. In this issue, poet and critical writer Sharon Caseburg discusses poetry and love gone wrong with iconic Canadian poet, novelist and editor, Tom Wayman. A selection of Wayman’s well-known work on the subject along with new writing accompanies this in-depth conversation. Also in this issue are a very fine selection of new work from John Creary, John Wall Barger, Andrea Mcphearson, Jacob McArthur Mooney and Patrick Woodcock, to name a few. A unique take on the age-old discussion of love and poetry, this issue is sure to surprise.
Online content from this issue
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by marqus bobesich
It’s come to this – an empty house; a bag of cupcakes from teenage girls (so neighbourly, so young) blowing...
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by cynthia woodman kerkham
I would like to have dinner with the man who treated me wrong. The one who, when I laughed open-mouthed...
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by jodi a. shaw
That day we argued, I said I was talking about you—I was talking 80 percent metaphor, 20 percent you. I...
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by kelli russell agodon
Our linen closet is full of wingless birds. What you call a cloud, I call desperation. Put away...
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Interviewed by Sharon Caseburg
Sharon Caseburg: A few years back you edited The Dominion of Love: An Anthology of Canadian Love Poems (Harbour Publishing,...