The Keystone of Canadian Poetry Turns 35
Fall 2010 · Vol. 33 No. 2
The second of two issues celebrating thirty-five years of publishing. This special 160-page issue is packed with poetry from seventy-five Canadian poets whose work has been published in CV2 over the past twenty-five years, from 1985 to the present.
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- Departure He rowed until the palisades wavered in the distance like the energy of heat. The sky took / on a blister-sheen. ...
- Ampleur et densité Ce n’est pas nécessaire / Il y a suffisamment d’amour dans le monde / La preuve, c’est que si on pouvait ...
- Shredding Five sheets at a time I lower your history into the teeth. / Deeds and denials, medical trials. Claims, ...
- Olympus The dog on the path appears / from the shadows of nothing. / About the size of a wolf, / it does not ...
- Footnote to the Book of Moonlight First published as The Cotton Sonnet, then posthumously / as The Mineral Thief, the book of moonlight / / ...
- On the First Day all us kids had to do it eh / / a lot of us cried / all huddled together like sheep / bleating and ...
- The Accent He shakes your hand / in a crowded room, he shakes / your hand and leans in close / to whisper I like ...
- Lightsinthenight Moving right along from thoughts / of orca feeding down the food chain / to aboriginal dancers moving the ...
- Heron In the twilight, witching hour, / a white heron turns a darkening pond / into a fancy cocktail, burst of ...