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The Industry of Verse

Contents

Editor’s Notes

an interview with Todd Besant, Managing Editor of Turnstone Press

an interview with Carla Funk

poetry by Carla Funk
angel of stupidity
down into our potato patch
the banning of beauty
melancholy
last night in a dream
you tell me your happiest childhood memory

an interview with Kitty Lewis and Barry Dempster of Brick Books

poetry by Barry Dempster
after
blindness
body parts
lucinda williams is in pain

an interview with Alana Wilcox, Editor-in-Chief of Coach House Books

poetry by David McGimpsey
breakfast
absolution

poetry by Sarah Lang
from the work of days
from the work of days
from the work of days

une entrevue avec Laurent Poliquin

an essay on Canadian poetry in England

an interview with Todd Swift

an interview with Kim Morrissey

poetry by Kim Morrissey
london bridge platform—8:16

an interview with Heather Taylor

an interview with Rob Mclennan

an interview with Victor Enns

poetry by Victor Enns
reflection
steadfast
summer school
leaving # 1

an interview with Alison Calder

poetry by Alison Calder
a stone is worldless
charles eisenmann looks at a photograph of julia pastrana
speak, taffy! / taffy speaks
imagining coming home after your death
sexing the prairie

an interview with Di Brandt

poetry by Steven Michael Berzensky
exploding sonnet

poetry by Katherine Bitney
the skate
the aerialists

poetry by Chris Pannell
nineteen corruptions of tai-chi

poetry by Karen Shenfeld
the standing prayer

poetry by Tammy Armstrong
living clock
canoe lessons

poetry by Coreen Boucher
the word for rain

poetry by Matt Robinson
a holiday offering

poetry by Trevor Walroth
aces high

poetry by Ben Hart
hockey on the radio

poetry by Katie Murphy
(extra) vertere: ‘to turn (to the outside)’
seasonal disorder or, february in vancouver

poetry by Natalie Meisner
babelfish or thus

poetry by Shane Neilson
from a height
a name for what ails you

poetry by John Wall Barger
weather

poetry by K.V. Skene
adrift in the xubaizhai gallery: the songjiang school

poetry by Jamella Hagen
warming
the nectarine room

poetry by Gary Hyland
never where we are

poetry by Kenneth McRobbie
ecole de

poetry by Estrella del Valle
play translated by toshiya kamei
my body is foamy foliage

poetry by Jan Conn
absolute love
dressmaker

poetry by Günter Kunert
my troy translated by gerald chapple
memorial day in may
elegy
berlin october

book review: Book of Longing and Dead Men of the Fifties

book review: 101 ways to make poems sell