2010 Manitoba Magazine Award Winner

Congratulations to Catherine Hunter, whose poems "After Rain," "Chatham Beach," and "Landmarks" took home the 2010 Manitoba Magazine Award for Best Poem / Suite of Poems.

This suite was originally published in CV2's Summer 2009 Green issue.

Excerpt from "Chatham Beach" by Catherine Hunter

Remember the gifts the beach gave up? Those small
surrenders, crab shells and children’s runners and seaweed
like reel-to-reel audio tape unspiralling
through a hole in a bleached dry boat,

the striped shadow of snow fence rippling
over the ribs of sand, and the fox. Remember
the fox? Its thin black socks and spine of fire,
loping down the sloped dune of the cove.

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