At Odds with Tragedy - Summer 2006

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Vol. 29 No. 1. "At Odds with Tragedy" features an interview by poet and CV2 Editor Nina Berkhout with the author of Blue Feast, Shawna Lemay, about the darker side of inspiration, and an essay by George Murray, who was in the vicinity of the World Trade Towers in New York on that now infamous day of terror—September 11. Governor General Award winning author Karen Connelly writes about the epidemic of violence of women, and new poetry by Jennifer Still, Barry Dempster, Judith Krause and many others.


Read excerpts:
Table of Contents
Words from the editor
Judith Krause - variations on a glosa on the fourth anniversary of 9/11
an interview with Shawna Lemay (excerpt)
Shawna Lemay - why not
Erin Murphy - rules for writing poems about hurricane katrina
Cécile Oumhani - jardins
Cécile Oumhani - parfum
an essay by George Murray (excerpt)
Marilyn Iwama - on gaspereau road
Jennifer Still - girlwood: a treasury for the lost (excerpts)
Sonja Greckol - joyriding
Murray Reiss - mything pieces
Sandra Lambert - walking the dogs
Malca Litovitz and Elana Wolff - moon-sliver
Ann Scowcroft - love poem
Barry Dempster - library book sale
Billeh Nickerson - impact
Jennifer Londry - slip
Sachiko Murakami - wishing well





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