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All Poems



Taking Leave

by Matthew Manera
Letters & Other Connections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 134 (Autumn 1992): 8-8.

Taurus

by Cyril Dabydeen
Sources. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 76 (Spring 1978): 46-46.

Tea-Stained Heart

by Valerie Stetson
Women & Poetry. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 166 (Autumn 2000): 61.

Testament

by John Donlan
Tracking CanLit. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 220 (Spring 2014): 54.

th nite is full uv zanee blessings

by bill bissett
Concepts of Vancouver: Poetics, Art, Media Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 235 (Winter 2017): 49-50.

Thanatosine

by Tom Wayman
Queer Frontiers. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 224 (Spring 2015): 100-101.

That feeling

by Laisha Rosnau
Canadian Literature 216 (Spring 2013): 34.

That part of driving

by Erinn Beth Langille
Emerging Scholars 2. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 228-229 (Spring/Summer 2016): 110.

The 94 Calls: Colonized Sonnets LXXXI to LXXXIV

by Sonnet L'Abbé
Indigenous Literature and the Arts of Comunity. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 230-231 (Autumn/Winter 2016): 233-237.

The Angel of My Tongue

by Peter Christensen
Contemporary Dramatists & the Art of the Theatre. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 85 (Summer 1980): 70-70.

the apocalypse will begin

by Wayne Keon
Native, Individual, State. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 144 (Spring 1995): 78-81.

The Beauty of Rage

by Beatrice Achampong
Returns Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 243 (2020): 14.

The business of the grass

by Frank Klaassen
Reading, Writing, Listening Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 241 (2020): 16-17.

The Calypsonian

by Cyril Dabydeen
Paradigms of Doubleness. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 104 (Spring 1985): 93-94.

The Canadian Garden

by Stephanie Bolster
Canadian Literature 181 (Summer 2004): 42-42.

The Canals of Mars

by David Martin
60th Anniversary Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 239 (2019): 107.

The Cave in the Coals

by John Pass
Black Writing in Canada. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 182 (Autumn 2004): 85-86.

The Comfort of Elders

by Susan Ioannou
Postcolonial Identities. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 149 (Summer 1996): 100-100.

The Curtain

by Russell Thornton
Canadian Literature 154 (Autumn 1997): 9.

The Death of a Taxpayer

by John Barton
The Long Poem / Remembering bp Nichol. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 122-123 (Autumn/Winter 1989): 55-56.

The Death-Trick

by Shane Neilson
Rescaling CanLit: Global Readings Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 238 (2019): 83.

the deer in her tracks

by Rick Taylor
Canadian Literature 181 (Summer 2004): 77.

The Differential Diagnoses

by Brad Buchanan
Radio, Film, and Fiction. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 225 (Summer 2015): 81.

the ever-imposing tendency towards occupation

by Samantha Carey
Queer Frontiers. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 224 (Spring 2015): 82.

The Fall of Paris

by Andrew Parkin
Nature, Natural, Naturalists. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 111 (Winter 1986): 67.

The Field Speaks of its Persistence

by Leslie Timmins
Radio, Film, and Fiction. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 225 (Summer 2015): 64-65.

The Fox

by Kim Fu
Asian Canadian Critique Beyond the Nation. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 227 (Winter 2015): 15-16.

The Geology of a Moment

by Kevin Spenst
Emerging Scholars, Redux Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 242 (2020): 12-13.

The Gravel Pit

by M. Travis Lane
Nature / Culture. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 170-171 (Autumn/Winter 2001): 20.

The Home of the Bewildered

by Naomi Rachel
Wilson, Laurence, Gallant, Glasco. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 93 (Summer 1982): 23-25.

The Language of Jasper

by kerry rawlinson
Recursive Time. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 222 (Autumn 2014): 84.

The Last Elk In Burwash, Ontario

by Owen Torrey
Canadian Literature 248 (2022): 116-117.

The Laying on of Hands

by Jay Ruzesky
Canadian Literature 156 (Spring 1998): 56-58.

The Local

by Jen Currin
Emerging Scholars, Redux Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 242 (2020): 100.

the longhouse

by Sharron Proulx-Turner
Indigenous Literature and the Arts of Comunity. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 230-231 (Autumn/Winter 2016): 43-44.

The Man in the Boot

by Eric Trethewey
Contemporary Drama. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 118 (Autumn 1988): 96.

The Measure

by Dave Margoshes
Canadian Literature 248 (2022): 115.

The Mission House (Lunar New Year 1948)

by D. S. Martin
Literature & War. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 179 (Winter 2003): 106-106.

The Muscle Motor Molecule Myosin

by John Donlan
Rescaling CanLit: Global Readings Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 238 (2019): 65.

The Ogre’s Yard

by M. Travis Lane
Canadian Literature 214 (Autumn 2012): 30.

The Oracle

by David Solway
25th Anniversary Issue. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 100 (Spring 1984): 298.

The People of the Grassy Don’t Have a Mercury Problem, They Have a Drinking Problem

by Adam Dickinson
Literary History. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 233 (Summer 2017): 28.

The Piano Strings

by Ruby Turok-Squire
Emerging Scholars 2. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 228-229 (Spring/Summer 2016): 72.

The Powers of the Pawn

by David Solway
Intellectual History. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 83 (Winter 1979): 30-31.

The Promise/Broken Land mediatation on Treaty Three

by Shane Rhodes
21st-Century Poetics. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 210-211 (Autumn/Winter 2011): 96.

The RK Hornbook Retractions

by Robert Kroetsch
On Thomas King. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 161-162 (Summer/Autumn 1999): 12-17.

The Ruins of Phylakopi

by David Solway
Nature, Politics, Poetics. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 136 (Spring 1993): 79-80.

The Rules of the Kingdom

by Julie Paul
Contested Migrations. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 219 (Winter 2013): 93-94.

The Saning

by Linda Rogers
New Directions. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 158 (Autumn 1998): 10-11.

The satisfaction of knowing

by Dave Margoshes
Canadian Literature 165 (Summer 2000): 42-42.

The Separation Mists

by Michael deBeyer
Canadian Literature 169 (Summer 2001): 12-12.

The silhouette of a pole on the shore of the Nass River

by Jordan Abel
Indigenous Focus. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 215 (Winter 2012): 11-15.
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The Tasks

by Susan McCaslin
Black Writing in Canada. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 182 (Autumn 2004): 84-84.

The thin walls of Japan

by Deirdre Dwyer
East Asian-Canadian Connections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 140 (Spring 1994) (Spring 1994): 30-30.

The View from Under the Bookcase

by M. Travis Lane
Canadian Literature 169 (Summer 2001): 102-105.

The Village Corner—Yorkville, Toronto

by Lillian Allen
Canadian Literature 248 (2022): 174-175.

The Village of the Blind (India)

by Roger Nash
Canadian Literature 185 (Summer 2005): 91.

The waking

by Dave Margoshes
Gay and Lesbian Writing in Canadian Literature. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 159 (Winter 1998): 73-73.

The Walls Are Too High

by Deborah Schnitzer
New Directions. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 158 (Autumn 1998): 89.

The Witch’s Motivation

by Adrienne Weiss
Spectres of Modernism. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 209 (Summer 2011): 47-47.

The Wrong Question

by Anne Swannell
Mothers & Daughters. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 109 (Summer 1986): 4.

there are hierarchies of grief

by Angela Semple
Indigenous Literature and the Arts of Comunity. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 230-231 (Autumn/Winter 2016): 106-107.

this half is for the ceremony

by Derek Beaulieu
Context(e)s. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 195 (Winter 2007): 66.

This is a Mining Town

by Natasha Gold
Agency & Affect. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 223 (Winter 2014): 12.

This Is My Mother’s Camera

by Roger Nash
Literature & the Visual Arts. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 113-114 (Summer/Autumn 1987): 167.

This is the poem you couldn’t write

by Amanda Fayant
Canadian Literature 248 (2022): 120.

This Island

by Linda Rogers
Caribbean Connections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 95 (Winter 1982): 50-55.

This Side of the Border

by John Barton
Native, Individual, State. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 144 (Spring 1995): 41-42.

Three Rocks Jutting Up from Snow

by Yvonne Trainer
Poets’ Words. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 115 (Winter 1987): 64.

Thumbing It

by Jamie Dopp
Canadian Literature 164 (Spring 2000): 112-113.

Tides

by Nancy Pagh
Of Borders and Bioregions. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 218 (Autumn 2013): 46.

Tidying the Tower: the Lady of Shalott without Tennyson

by Anne Compton
Auto/biography. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 172 (Spring 2002): 112-113.

To Carthage Then We Came

by Jim Johnstone
Asian Canadian Critique Beyond the Nation. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 227 (Winter 2015): 37.

To Taenia at 8 and 1/2 Months

by Crystal Hurdle
Nature / Culture. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 170-171 (Autumn/Winter 2001): 191.

Too Late

by Carole Langille
Canadian Literature 177 (Summer 2003): 11-11.

Touchable

by John Barton
Contemporary Quebec Fiction. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 88 (Spring 1981): 18-19.

Trails in His Head

by Dennis Cooley
Popular Culture. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 108 (Spring 1986): 103-104.

Translated World

by Mary di Michele
Italian-Canadian Connections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 106 (Autumn 1985): 55-56.

Trees

by Dave Margoshes
Mothers & Daughters. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 109 (Summer 1986): 99-100.

Trusting The Song

by Erín Mouré
Jalna Revisited. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 66 (Autumn 1975): 89-90.

Trying to Feed the Baby

by David Eso
Eclectic Mix Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 234 (Autumn 2017): 91.

TTC

by Camille Lendor
Emerging Scholars, Redux Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 242 (2020): 144.

Tulips

by Elana Wolff
Canadian Literature 180 (Spring 2004): 29.

Tumbling in spring

by Michael Lithgow
Reading, Writing, Listening Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 241 (2020): 123-124.

Two month adrift

by Dave Margoshes
Science & Canadian Literature. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 221 (Summer 2014): 108.

Two Shots

by Dani Spinosa
Indigenous Literature and the Arts of Comunity. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 230-231 (Autumn/Winter 2016): 248.

Two Things Fought

by Cyril Dabydeen
Psychological Fictions: Myth, Carr, Lowry. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 84 (Spring 1980): 40-40.