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.
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- An Interview with Sue Goyette 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 proximity or ...
- Abandoned Someone tore the hands off a big round clock, familiar / as a classroom clock & abandoned it in the weeds / ...
- Land then Water The cheque refuses to be cashed without being thanked first. / One cow has skidded down the meadow and tipped over. ...
- Barometric Pressure Always start with poems about places / that sing themselves as if they were a whir / of mid-august heat bugs. ...
- Herons on the Ice 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 River and bridge / and things that hover over: / smoke, / helicopter, / ...
- okada months after the earthquake / inside the exclusion zone / the water has hardened to mud / there are bodies still / ...
- Sinuosity: a found and erased poem A river’s sinuosity is its tendency to move / back and forth across the floodplain, / in an S-shaped pattern, ...
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