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• An Interview with Sue Goyette Interviewed by Hannah Green Hannah Green: It sounds like myth and poetry are perhaps more closely related than I had thought. They certainly do perform in the same way—as a means of understanding. You mention you are inspired to create new myths. I find that so interesting! Would you like to share what myths you have created and what the impact has been?  Sue Goyette: I think one of the ways poetry is so vital and, by ...
• Abandoned by Maureen Hynes Someone tore the hands off a big round clock, familiar  / as a classroom clock & abandoned it in the weeds  / ...
• Land then Water by Sue Goyette The cheque refuses to be cashed without being thanked first. / One cow has skidded down the meadow and tipped over. ...
• Barometric Pressure by D.A. Lockhart Always start with poems about places / that sing themselves as if they were a whir  / of mid-august heat bugs. ...
• Herons on the Ice by Richard Sanger Having had their summer, swum, fished and plunged / deeply in their chosen waters, these old birds / have woken ...
• New Year’s Eve fireworks at the Forks by Angeline Schellenberg River and bridge / and things that hover over: /             smoke,  /             helicopter, /           ...
• okada by Meg Eden months after the earthquake / inside the exclusion zone / the water has hardened to mud / there are bodies still / ...
• Sinuosity: a found and erased poem by Maureen Scott Harris A river’s sinuosity is its tendency to move  / back and forth across the floodplain,  / in an S-shaped pattern, ...
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  Review: Bird Beast and Lover by Arthur Adamson Reviewed by Gabriele Codifava A Summer Man Light and contrast of light is the distinctive, stylistic feature of Bird Beast and Lover by Arthur Adamson. As with every journey of initiation, Adamson’s is configured as a transition between two places, a transfiguration, a re-birth or simply ...