CanLit Poets
Poems
2
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- A Band of Hair Beneath the Veil by Will Garrett-Petts
- A Canadian girl in training (C.G.I.T.) by Adrienne Weiss
- A lesbian and her lover in Siberia by Susan L. Helwig
- A Minor Talent by David Zieroth
- a mother's dying by Monika Lee
- A Sun's Life by Cyril Dabydeen
- A Time Past by Cyril Dabydeen
- A Vision by Crystal Hurdle
- A Wedding Song by Uma Parameswaran
- A Windfall Light by Eva Tihanyi
- A Woman's Shoe by Lorna Crozier
- Acorn's Third World by Cyril Dabydeen
- Advent by Susan McCaslin
- Advice to My Friends by Robert Kroetsch
- Aerial by Iain Higgins
- After the Incas by J.A. Wainwright
- Afternoon and Evening by David Zieroth
- Air Canada Owls by Glen Sorestad
- Alley in the Rain by Wangshu Dai (trans. Michael Bullock, Wenting Liao)
- And of the Measure of Winter We are Sure by Patrick Lane
- Andromeda the Princess by Alan R. Wilson
- anon by Adebe D.A.
- Anthropic Principle Revisited by K.V. Skene
- Antiphony by George Elliott Clarke
- Anything You Say by Neile Graham
- Aphasia by David Zieroth
- Arguing with Science by Dave Margoshes
- Aristotle's Lantern by John Pass
- Arks by Russell Thornton
- Art by Susan L. Helwig
- At the Art Therapist's by Heather Spears
- At the Back of Our Minds by John Barton
- At the Ice Palace by Anne Swannell
- Auditory Camouflage by Colin Morton
- August Light by Terry Watada
- Autobiography by Eva Tihanyi
- Ave Maters by M. Travis Lane
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- baiting hooks by Jim F. Johnstone
- Bats by Judith Harway
- Bedford Social by John Donlan
- Bells by Eric Miller
- Bequest by Christopher Levenson
- Berlin by Eric Miller
- Beta Love by Nathaniel G. Moore
- Big News Cafe by Meredith Quartermain
- Bishop to King by David Solway
- Blind Man by Eva Tihanyi
- Blue Moon by Daniel David Moses
- Breakdown Moon by Daniel David Moses
- Breakthrough by Eva Tihanyi
- bushed by Sheila Peters
c
- Chainsaw by Jesse Patrick Ferguson
- Chet Baker's Dog by Susan L. Helwig
- Chiaroscuro by Judith Harway
- Christmas by J.D. Carpenter
- Cinderella by John Donlan
- Club Med by David Solway
- Coming out to my mother by Susan L. Helwig
- Communion of the wasps by Dave Margoshes
- Corduroy by M. Travis Lane
- Corn Road by J.D. Carpenter
- Crow Child by John Donlan
- Cryptic Species by Hiromi Goto
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- December, Glasgow by Theresa Muñoz
- Descent, as Usual, into Hell by Robert Kroetsch
- Diane Arbus: Ground Glass by Kenneth Sherman
- Distressed Façade by Elana Wolff
- Doxology by Crystal Hurdle
- Dream Galliard by Linda Rogers
- Dreaming of Rivers by Eric Trethewey
- Driving, Accidental, West by Robert Kroetsch
- Dusk, During Harmattan by Richard Stevenson
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- Elegy as a message left on an answering machine by Steven Heighton
- Elegy in White by J.A. Wainwright
- Elegy, Apollo 1 by Steven Heighton
- Elvis Dead by Christopher Wiseman
- Emblems by Cyril Dabydeen
- Embouchure by Elana Wolff
- Envy: A Botanical Description by Susan Glickman
- Eros, 1911 by Catherine Owen
- Eulogy for H. Mackay by J.D. Carpenter
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- Fairy Tales by Kenneth Sherman
- Farming On Water by Roger Nash
- Fear of Failiure by David Zieroth
- Final Anthropic Principles by K.V. Skene
- Finding by George McWhirter
- First Rain, Then Snow by David Zieroth
- for bing ai by Rita Wong
- For Robin Blaser by Meredith Quartermain
- For the Record by Yvonne Trainer
- from Flesh, A Naked Dress by Susan Andrews Grace
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- Galactic Dynamics by John Donlan
- Giralda by Anne Swannell
- Gorgias the magician by Eric Miller
- grain by matt robinson
- Grand Fir by George Bowering
- Grasp the Sparrow's Tail by Sandy Shreve
- Green Violence by Mary di Michele
- Grey by John Barton
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- Heritage by Roger Nash
- Hints of the Hidden by D.S. Martin
- Hogheads by Elana Wolff
- Hornbook #15 by Robert Kroetsch
- Hotel Centrale, Rotterdam by Daniel David Moses
- Housebound by John Barton
- How the Nictitating Membrane Mitigates Against Explication of the Milky Way by Hannah Main-van der Kamp
- Hummingbird by M. Travis Lane
- Hunted by Eric Miller
- Husband, Flying by Night by Anne Swannell
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- If I Poked this Air by Russell Thornton
- Images by Steven Price
- In the Conversation as Oracle by Elana Wolff
- In the Laurentians by Hendrik Slegtenhorst
- Inukshuk by Daniel David Moses
- Invention of the World by Linda Rogers
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- Learning the Future by Eric Trethewey
- Letters to Mary by Yvonne Trainer
- London, Certainly by Colin Morton
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- Map of the Known World by Anne Simpson
- Me n Arleen Usd to Drive Evree Wher by bill bissett
- Meeting Diefenbaker by Jay Ruzesky
- Memory II: Clouds by Paul Huebener
- Middle April by Naomi Rachel
- Midsummer by Gillian Jerome
- Mine by Tom Wayman
- Monk by Jane Munro
- Mourner by Susan Ioannou
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- Nephew by Cyril Dabydeen
- New Albion by Meredith Quartermain
- News from Another Room (Simple) by Steven Heighton
- Not Born Cyd by Dave Margoshes
- Notes on Clara Schumann Visiting Johannes Brahms’ Family by Theresa Muñoz
- November Sun by David Zieroth
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- Of Flowers by Shane Rhodes
- on the death of paterson ewen by rob mclennan
- Open House by J.A. Wainwright
- Oriste by Russell Thornton
- Ours for the Picking by Iain Higgins
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- Paddle by M. Travis Lane
- Palaeozoic by Adam Dickinson
- Participatory Anthropic Principles by K.V. Skene
- Pawns and Pieces by David Solway
- Person of Snow by John Donlan
- Petrified at Every Turn by Susan McCaslin
- Phone Survey by Carole Langille
- Play-Acting by Cyril Dabydeen
- Poem in Memory of an Earlier Poem by Sharon Thesen
- Poem of Probabilities by Roger Nash
- Poetry Reading in a (Divided) Conference Room by Anne Swannell
- Polygonics by John Barton
- Post-Cannibalism by Cyril Dabydeen
- Post-mortem by Cyril Dabydeen
- Potluck by Marilyn Iwama
- Powerpoint Presentation by Lyle Neff
- Protext by M. Travis Lane
- Psychosomaton by Brad Buchanan
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- Reading by Susan Glickman
- Rehearsal by Cyril Dabydeen
- Road Ending by M. Travis Lane
- Rural Fence by Tom Wayman
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- Schizophrenic by Crystal Hurdle
- Seagulls Twist Air by Russell Thornton
- Second-hand Depression by Crystal Hurdle
- Self-Portrait in a Display Window by Iain Higgins
- Self-portraits in Youth by Hendrik Slegtenhorst
- Setting the Hook by Linda Rogers
- Severence Package by Catherine Owen
- SHADOWS by Roger Nash
- Shakespearean Garden by J.D. Carpenter
- Sieve by Kenneth Sherman
- Small Furies by Jeffrey Round
- Small signs and scars by Gillian Harding-Russell
- Snake's Belly Turned Over by Cyril Dabydeen
- Soil Building by John Donlan
- Song on Starling Street by Daniel David Moses
- Split-Leafed Maple by Stephanie Bolster
- Still Life with Apple by Shane Rhodes
- Strikes Often by Dave Margoshes
- Strong Anthropic Principle by K.V. Skene
- Subtexts by Susan Ioannou
- Summer 1964. Mexico by George Bowering
- Summer night by Dave Margoshes
- Summer Solstice by Roger Nash
- Surrender by Cyril Dabydeen
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- Taking Leave by Matthew Manera
- Taurus by Cyril Dabydeen
- Tea-Stained Heart by Valerie Stetson
- The Angel of My Tongue by Peter Christensen
- The Calypsonian by Cyril Dabydeen
- The Canadian Garden by Stephanie Bolster
- The Cave in the Coals by John Pass
- The Cida Poet Writes of Guyana by Cyril Dabydeen
- The Comfort of Elders by Susan Ioannou
- The Curtain by Russell Thornton
- The Death of a Taxpayer by John Barton
- the deer in her tracks by Rick Taylor
- The Fall of Paris by Andrew Parkin
- The Function of the Individual by David Zieroth
- The Gravel Pit by M. Travis Lane
- The Home of the Bewildered by Naomi Rachel
- The Laying on of Hands by Jay Ruzesky
- The Lost Child by Susan Glickman
- The Man in the Boot by Eric Trethewey
- The Mission House (Lunar New Year 1948) by D.S. Martin
- The Oracle by David Solway
- The Party Line by David Zieroth
- The Powers of the Pawn by David Solway
- The RK Hornbook Retractions by Robert Kroetsch
- The Ruins of Phylakopi by David Solway
- The Saning by Linda Rogers
- The satisfaction of knowing by Dave Margoshes
- The Separation Mists by Michael deBeyer
- The Side of the Border by John Barton
- The Tasks by Susan McCaslin
- The thin walls of Japan by Deirdre Dwyer
- The View from Under the Bookcase by M. Travis Lane
- The Village of the Blind (India) by Roger Nash
- The Visiting Wind by Russell Thornton
- The waking by Dave Margoshes
- The Walls Are Too High by Deborah Schnitzer
- The Wrong Question by Anne Swannell
- This is my Mother's Camera by Roger Nash
- This Island by Linda Rogers
- Three Rocks Jutting Up from Snow by Yvonne Trainer
- Thumbing It by Jamie Dopp
- Tidying the Tower by Anne Compton
- Time Over Earth by David Zieroth
- To Taenia at 8 and 1/2 Months by Crystal Hurdle
- Too Late by Carole Langille
- Touchable by John Barton
- Trails in His Head by Dennis Cooley
- Translated World by Mary di Michele
- Trees by Dave Margoshes
- Trusting the Song by Erin Mouré
- Tulips by Elana Wolff
- Two Things Fought by Cyril Dabydeen
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- Wally by J.D. Carpenter
- Watching Them by Anne Swannell
- Weak Anthropic Principle by K.V. Skene
- What Can Be Named in Numbers Reassures by M. Travis Lane
- What He Owns by David Zieroth
- What Remains by Eric Trethewey
- What's Good for General Motors by Dennis Cooley
- Where are you from? by Angela Long
- White Fruit by Dave Margoshes
- Window Display by J.D. Carpenter
- Windsurfing by David Solway
- Woman at the Schwarzenegger Film by Jay Ruzesky
- Woman of the Dunes by Linda Rogers
- Wooding by David Zieroth
- Wore Dresses by Dave Margoshes
