Snapshots
A quick look at the poetry world beyond CV2.
Essays & Reviews
- The Integrated Life Although there are certainly relationships that rise above this standing reserve mentality (I’m thinking of my beloved bicycle or maybe your favourite mug), it seems equally obvious that when we strip the earth of its trees and minerals and oils as we are doing, we are treating it as mere fuel. I say “we” because however ...
- Figure and Ground: An Ecopoetic Travelogue July 1: Canada Day: it’s interesting how you can brag We stop at the Terry Fox Memorial outside Thunder Bay and watch people from several countries weep at the foot of the statue. Terry ran halfway across the country on one leg in 1980, the year I turned eighteen. Like a friend of mine that year, he had osteogenic ...
- Formally Speaking Last year I led a poetry workshop with a group of about 20 older and mostly retired people, nearly all women. At our first meeting we agreed to continue with more or less the same format they’d followed in previous years, where each participant read something and then others commented. At first I wondered why I enjoyed ...
