Water
Summer 2016. Vol. 39 No.1
In this instalment of CV2, we have gathered together a range of writing to examine how water continues to shape poetry as a means of inspiration. The issue also includes an interview with Sue Goyette, woodcut images and poems from Bird Beast and Lover, as well as the winners of the 2014 and 2015 Lina Chartrand Award.
Online content from this issue
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by Maureen Hynes
Someone tore the hands off a big round clock, familiar as a classroom clock & abandoned it in the weeds ...
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by Sue Goyette
The cheque refuses to be cashed without being thanked first. One cow has skidded down the meadow and tipped over....
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by D.A. Lockhart
Always start with poems about places that sing themselves as if they were a whir of mid-august heat bugs. Begin...
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by Richard Sanger
Having had their summer, swum, fished and plunged deeply in their chosen waters, these old birds have woken up to...
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by Angeline Schellenberg
River and bridge and things that hover over: smoke, ...
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by Meg Eden
months after the earthquake / inside the exclusion zone / the water has hardened to mud / there are bodies...
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by Maureen Scott Harris
A river’s sinuosity is its tendency to move back and forth across the floodplain, in an S-shaped pattern, over time,...
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Reviewed by Gabriele Codifava
A Summer Man Light and contrast of light is the distinctive, stylistic feature of Bird Beast and Lover by Arthur...
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Interviewed by Hannah Green
Hannah Green: It sounds like myth and poetry are perhaps more closely related than I had thought. They certainly do...
