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All Poems



“Astronaut Family”

by Shazia Hafiz Ramji
Emerging Scholars 2. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 228-229 (Spring/Summer 2016): 226.

“At first [wo]men spoke only poetry (only much later did it occur to anyone to reason)”

by Julie Anne Joosten
Asian Canadian Critique Beyond the Nation. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 227 (Winter 2015): 73.

& this too

by Tina Do
Pandemics Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 245 (2021): 150-151.

Anatomy of La IIIe République: By Alexandre Dumas, fils*

by George Elliott Clarke
Recursive Time. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 222 (Autumn 2014): 30-33.

lustral

by Natalie Helberg
21st-Century Poetics. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 210-211 (Autumn/Winter 2011): 59.

from Notes on Grieving

by Lydia Kwa
Lost and Found Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 236 (2018): 33.

IT WAS: born of stars

by Eric Zboya
Canadian Literature 206 (Autumn 2010): 29.

2533 in the Buddhist Era

by Deirdre Dwyer
Postcolonial Identities. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 149 (Summer 1996): 35-35.

2nd Letter for Steen

by Heather Spears
Poets & Politics. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 105 (Summer 1985): 99.

39—I Became Them

by Gregory Betts
Canadian Literature 212 (Spring 2012): 103-104.

40—Shaped My Voice

by Gregory Betts
21st-Century Poetics. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 210-211 (Autumn/Winter 2011): 168-168.

41—To Get Read

by Gregory Betts
Canadian Literature 212 (Spring 2012): 120-21.

9 to 5

by Emma Stothers
Science & Canadian Literature. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 221 (Summer 2014): 92.

À Cristoforo Colombo (II)

by George Elliott Clarke
Recursive Time. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 222 (Autumn 2014): 12.

A Band of Hair Beneath the Veil

by W. F. (Will) Garrett-Petts
Italian-Canadian Connections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 106 (Autumn 1985): 30-31.

A Canadian girl in training (C.G.I.T.)

by Adrienne Weiss
Canadian Literature 181 (Summer 2004): 93.

A Green Man

by John Barton
New Work on Early Canadian Literature. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 213 (Summer 2012): 39-39.

A lesbian and her lover in Siberia

by Susan L. Helwig
Anne Carson. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 176 (Spring 2003): 44-44.

A Letter from Henry Tucker, August 28, 1789

by George Elliott Clarke
Canadian Literature 216 (Spring 2013): 138-41.

A Minor Talent

by David Zieroth
Canadian Literature 188 (Spring 2006): 85.

a mother’s dying

by Monika Lee
Canadian Literature 156 (Spring 1998): 82-82.

a mouth full of useless words

by Jillian Christmas
Emerging Scholars, Redux Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 242 (2020): 17-18.

A Study in Coats

by Nina Berkhout
Canadian Literature 250 (2022): 135-136.

A Sun’s Life

by Cyril Dabydeen
Caribbean Connections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 95 (Winter 1982): 65.

A Time Past

by Cyril Dabydeen
Sources. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 76 (Spring 1978): 97-97.

A Walk Along Lakeshore Drive

by Kenneth Sherman
Emerging Scholars, Redux Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 242 (2020): 117.

A Woman’s Shoe

by Lorna Crozier
Shaping Texts. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 119 (Winter 1988): 54-55.

Across Water

by Bill Howell
Emerging Scholars 2. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 228-229 (Spring/Summer 2016): 34.

Advent

by Susan McCaslin
Canadian Literature 184 (Spring 2005): 84-84.

Advice to My Friends

by Robert Kroetsch
25th Anniversary Issue. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 100 (Spring 1984): 181-182.

Aerial

by Iain Higgins
New Directions. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 158 (Autumn 1998): 36-41.

Affirmation

by Joanne Epp
Reading, Writing, Listening Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 241 (2020): 94.

After Aristotle

by Cyril Dabydeen
Tracking CanLit. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 220 (Spring 2014): 73.

After riding the escalator back

by Todd Swift
Spectres of Modernism. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 209 (Summer 2011): 107-108.

After the Incas

by J. A. Wainwright
Nationalism. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 75 (Winter 1977): 52.

Afternoon and Evening

by David Zieroth
Poets’ Words. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 115 (Winter 1987): 124.

again

by Derek Beaulieu
New Work on Early Canadian Literature. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 213 (Summer 2012): 58.

Air Canada Owls

by Glen Sorestad
Popular Culture. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 108 (Spring 1986): 79-80.

All That Was Desired

by Steve Noyes
Tracking CanLit. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 220 (Spring 2014): 92.

All The Way Down Here

by Bill Howell
Indigenous Focus. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 215 (Winter 2012): 53.

All We Still Carry

by Canisia Lubrin
Pandemics Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 245 (2021): 185-188.

Alley in the Rain

by Wangshu Dai, Wenting Liao and Michael Bullock
Predators and Gardens. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 197 (Summer 2008): 96-97.

Alpha Effect

by Michael Aird
Canadian Literature 212 (Spring 2012): 67.

Amazing Kong

by Nathaniel G. Moore
Canadian Literature 216 (Spring 2013): 11.

An Absence of Team Spirit

by Bill Howell
Canadian Literature 214 (Autumn 2012): 90.

an eye, earth

by Michael Prior
Tracking CanLit. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 220 (Spring 2014): 36.

And of the Measure of Winter We Are Sure

by Patrick Lane
Poetic Form. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 97 (Summer 1983): 34-34.

And Somewhere In The After-Image Winged Creatures Tread Gently On The Soft Ground

by Elana Wolff
Science & Canadian Literature. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 221 (Summer 2014): 17.

Andromeda the Princess

by Alan R. Wilson
Nature / Culture. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 170-171 (Autumn/Winter 2001): 108.

Angry Thunderbird, 1975

by Armand Garnet Ruffo
Contested Migrations. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 219 (Winter 2013): 56.

anon

by Adebe DeRango-Adem
Diasporic Women’s Writing. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 196 (Spring 2008): 95-95.

Anti-depressant Pantoum

by Rebecca Păpucaru
Decolonial (Re)Visions of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 240 (2020): 40-41.

Antiphony

by George Elliott Clarke
Canadian Literature 157 (Summer 1998): 12-12.

Anything You Say

by Neile Graham
On Dennis Lee. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 98 (Autumn 1983): 45-46.

Aphasia

by David Zieroth
Poets’ Words. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 115 (Winter 1987): 122.

Arguing with Science

by Dave Margoshes
Literature & the Visual Arts. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 113-114 (Summer/Autumn 1987): 91-92.

Aristotle’s Lantern

by John Pass
Canadian Literature 154 (Autumn 1997): 72-73.

Arks

by Russell Thornton
Magic & Other Realisms. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 116 (Spring 1988): 96.

Art

by Susan L. Helwig
Canadian Literature 165 (Summer 2000): 23-24.

At first women felt with their organs (only much later did it occur to anyone to fear)

by Julie Anne Joosten
Asian Canadian Critique Beyond the Nation. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 227 (Winter 2015): 74.

At Leaf

by Christopher Patton
Of Borders and Bioregions. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 218 (Autumn 2013): 29.

At the Art Therapist’s

by Heather Spears
Literature & the Visual Arts. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 113-114 (Summer/Autumn 1987): 108.

At the Back of Our Minds

by John Barton
Timothy Findley & the War Novel. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 91 (Winter 1981): 47-48.

Auditory Camouflage

by Colin Morton
Atwood, Carrier, Grandbois, Lowry. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 112 (Spring 1987): 31.

August Light

by Terry Watada
Asian Canadian Studies Spec issue of Canadian Literature 199 (Winter 2008): 214-215.

Autobiography

by Eva Tihanyi
25th Anniversary Issue. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 100 (Spring 1984): 318.

Automobilia

by Michael Penny
House, Home, Hospitality Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 237 (2019): 64.

Ave Maters

by M. Travis Lane
Shaping Texts. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 119 (Winter 1988): 7-7.

baiting hooks

by Jim Johnstone
Canadian Literature 191 (Winter 2006): 85-85.

Basalt

by Fred Wah
Emerging Scholars, Redux Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 242 (2020): 15-16.

Bats

by Judith Harway
Stories, Tales & Sketches from Life. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 94 (Autumn 1982): 8-9.

Beauty, Revisited

by Amanda Charlotte Earl
Emerging Scholars 2. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 228-229 (Spring/Summer 2016): 168-169.

Bedford Social

by John Donlan
Writers Talking. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 183 (Winter 2004): 28-28.

Bells

by Eric Miller
B.C. Writers / Reviews Issue. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 102 (Autumn 1984): 55.

Bequest

by Christopher Levenson
The Literature of Atlantic Canada. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 189 (Summer 2006): 49-49.

Berlin

by Eric Miller
Gay and Lesbian Writing in Canadian Literature. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 159 (Winter 1998): 89-90.

Beta love

by Nathaniel G. Moore
Canadian Literature 191 (Winter 2006): 103-103.

Big News Cafe

by Meredith Quartermain
Predators and Gardens. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 197 (Summer 2008): 79.

Bishop to King

by David Solway
Intellectual History. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 83 (Winter 1979): 29-30.

Black Noise

by Jesse Patrick Ferguson
Queerly Canadian. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 205 (Summer 2010): 69.

Blind Man

by Eva Tihanyi
Fictional Patterns. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 99 (Winter 1983): 46-47.

Blue Moon

by Daniel David Moses
Native Writers & Canadian Writing. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 124-125 (Spring/Summer 1990): 228-228.

Bottle Breaking Memories of Life

by Shannon Webb-Campbell
Indigenous Literature and the Arts of Comunity. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 230-231 (Autumn/Winter 2016): 160-161.

Breakthrough

by Eva Tihanyi
25th Anniversary Issue. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 100 (Spring 1984): 319-320.

build me down just to tear me up: the Mary-Anne Apts

by Clay McCann
Canadian Literature 212 (Spring 2012): 33.

Building Homo Thaliana: Protocol For The Cross

by Sonnet L'Abbé
Of Borders and Bioregions. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 218 (Autumn 2013): 10.

Burial at Sea

by Chris Oke
Meanwhile, Home. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 232 (Spring 2017): 64.

bushed

by Sheila Peters
Canadian Literature 184 (Spring 2005): 44-45.

By Camel through the Wasteland

by Brandon Marlon
Canadian Literature 250 (2022): 140.

By Definition of Preposition

by Changming Yuan
Emerging Scholars, Redux Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 242 (2020): 57.

Cairn Street

by Jessica Brown
House, Home, Hospitality Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 237 (2019): 120.

Carduelis: Behavioral Interview

by Tolu Oloruntoba
Canadian Literature 247 (2021): 82-83.

Caribou Moss

by Richard Kelly Kemick
Recursive Time. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 222 (Autumn 2014): 51.

Carrier Woman

by Armand Garnet Ruffo
Indigenous Literature and the Arts of Comunity. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 230-231 (Autumn/Winter 2016): 177.

Cassandra the Seer

by dee Hobsbawn-Smith
Eclectic Mix Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 234 (Autumn 2017): 51-53.

Cat Jacket

by Salvatore Difalco
Indigenous Focus. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 215 (Winter 2012): 33-34.

Cause Effect.

by Andrew McEwan
Agency & Affect. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 223 (Winter 2014): 101.

Cedar Cove, Revisited

by Douglas Walbourne-Gough
Emerging Scholars. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 226 (Autumn 2015): 111.

Cenote

by M. Travis Lane
Canadian Literature 214 (Autumn 2012): 14.

Chainsaw

by Jesse Patrick Ferguson
Visual/Textual Intersections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 194 (Autumn 2007): 94-94.