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Editor’s Notes

an interview with Jim Nason

poetry by Jim Nason
the argument
the fist of remembering
this is the good flaw of flesh, seed and taste of sea on the roof of my mouth
consumed by fire in april,
we made love standing
narcissus unfolding
what I didn’t tell the insurance agent
sycamore

essay by Tanis MacDonald
blazon: a fugue on poetry and the body

formally speaking by Maurice Mierau

an interview with Jan Conn

poetry by Jan Conn
trop de vert
mountain of mist and cloud
serra do curicuriari
small pink nebulae
urospatha sagittifolia
amazonian whites
the clipped language of mathematics

poetry by John Barton
reflection

poetry by J.R. Léveillé
avoir lieu

poetry by Kay Weber
some functions of a canoe
notes from the physical world

poetry by Julian Gobert
escalator ride with a poet

poetry by Garry Morse
untitled

poetry by Stephen Rowe
driving the 330 from gander

poetry by Pamela Garvey
interview with a mother of plaza de mayo, argentina

poetry by Dina E. Cox
diagnosis

poetry by Linda King
inclination
escape route

poetry by Traci O Conner
at my husband’s graveside
when you wanted him dead

poetry by William Buchan
labourer

poetry by Bren Simmers
shown on this map

poetry by Mark Sanders
the evening news

poetry by Mathew Martin
aesthetic distance
a quiet neighbourhood

poetry by Sonja Greckol
bits fall off
how to write a poem of advice
on the arts of seduction

poetry by Tom Wayman
companion

poetry by Peter Austin
aster

poetry by Anna Swanson
pass creek tower: arriving
present temperature
time to go

poetry by Rebekah Verdone
as for grieving

poetry by Nora Gould
he’ll jerk his slack
the pathologist

poetry by Brian Scott Dundas
porcupines
chatting up a patient in the neonatal unit

poetry by Nikolijne Troubetzkoy
on want
on being alone

poetry by Marshall Bood
burn
butts and coffee

poetry by Tim Prior
leaving

poetry by Sandra Lambert
mid-life
fleshy mystery
tulips
healing

poetry by Robert Gore
the ghostline
outside

poetry by Madhur Anand
buddha in the foreground

poetry by Ruth Roach Pierson
insufficiently consequential

Review by John Cunningham: Vermeer’s Light by George Bowering