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All Poems



Into Out of the Woods

by Janet Rogers
Indigenous Literature and the Arts of Comunity. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 230-231 (Autumn/Winter 2016): 23-24.

Into Which Worlds Could Fall

by Jesse Patrick Ferguson
Spectres of Modernism. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 209 (Summer 2011): 66-67.

Invention of the World

by Linda Rogers
The Times Between. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 107 (Winter 1985): 111.

it ain’t exactly heaven

by Wayne Keon
Native, Individual, State. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 144 (Spring 1995): 8-9.

January 28, 1986

by Derek Beaulieu
Canadian Literature 212 (Spring 2012): 49.

L’œil au ralenti

by Denise Desautels
Gendering the Archive. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 217 (Summer 2013): 124.

land is more than land

by annie grace ross
Indigenous Literature and the Arts of Comunity. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 230-231 (Autumn/Winter 2016): 196-197.

Landscape

by Jake Kennedy
Rescaling CanLit: Global Readings Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 238 (2019): 46.

Layton

by Kenneth Sherman
New Work on Early Canadian Literature. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 213 (Summer 2012): 140-140.

Learning the Future

by Eric Trethewey
Travel. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 174 (Autumn 2002): 49.

Legacy

by Hendrik Slegtenhorst
House, Home, Hospitality Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 237 (2019): 26.

Legion

by Chris Hutchinson
Canadian Literature 214 (Autumn 2012): 128.

Letters to Mary

by Yvonne Trainer
Poets’ Words. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 115 (Winter 1987): 6-8.

Like Water, Music

by Tom Wayman
Emerging Scholars 2. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 228-229 (Spring/Summer 2016): 131-132.

Liminal

by Blair Trewartha
Spectres of Modernism. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 209 (Summer 2011): 89-89.

London, Certainly

by Colin Morton
Atwood, Carrier, Grandbois, Lowry. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 112 (Spring 1987): 30.

Lotte Reiniger’s Magic Shadows*

by John Reibetanz
Asian Canadian Critique Beyond the Nation. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 227 (Winter 2015): 113.

Map of the Known World

by Anne Simpson
Nature / Culture. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 170-171 (Autumn/Winter 2001): 19.

Maria After the Concert

by Sabyasachi Nag
House, Home, Hospitality Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 237 (2019): 46.

Mean Street

by Salvatore Difalco
Spectres of Modernism. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 209 (Summer 2011): 30-30.

Memory II: Clouds

by Paul Huebener
Canada and Its Discontents. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 198 (Autumn 2008): 74-74.

Metamorpheses

by Nicholas Bradley
Agency & Affect. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 223 (Winter 2014): 66.

Middle April

by Naomi Rachel
Shaping Texts. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 119 (Winter 1988): 24.

Midsummer

by Gillian Jerome
Predators and Gardens. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 197 (Summer 2008): 28-28.

MINE

by Tom Wayman
Canadian Literature 188 (Spring 2006): 46.

Mon-Fri

by Rocco de Giacomo
Eclectic Mix Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 234 (Autumn 2017): 72-73.

Monk

by Jane Munro
Writers Talking. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 183 (Winter 2004): 39.

Monte Carlo, Mississauga

by Robin Richardson
Indigenous Focus. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 215 (Winter 2012): 137.

Moonlight Trees

by Tas Elizabeth Beck
House, Home, Hospitality Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 237 (2019): 101-102.

Moral Shadow

by Robert Hilles
Meanwhile, Home. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 232 (Spring 2017): 81.

Mourner

by Susan Ioannou
Canadian Literature 160 (Spring 1999): 100-100.

Moving through: for Chris Matzigkeit (1981–2010)

by Catherine Owen
Indigenous Focus. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 215 (Winter 2012): 69.

My Beloved Vancouver

by Dana Claxton
Concepts of Vancouver: Poetics, Art, Media Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 235 (Winter 2017): 31-33.

Nephew

by Cyril Dabydeen
Exiles and Expatriates. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 73 (Summer 1977): 78-78.

New Albion

by Meredith Quartermain
Predators and Gardens. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 197 (Summer 2008): 61.

New York Visitation: 29 July 2009

by Stephen Collis
21st-Century Poetics. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 210-211 (Autumn/Winter 2011): 133-134.

Not Born Cyd

by Dave Margoshes
Slavic and East-European Connections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 120 (Spring 1989): 98-99.

Notes on Clara Schumann Visiting Johannes Brahms’ Family

by Theresa Munoz
Women & the Politics of Memory. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 186 (Autumn 2005): 68-69.

Nouns (a poem after Robin Williams died)

by Brook William Ross Pearson
Emerging Scholars. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 226 (Autumn 2015): 34-35.

November Rain

by Arleen Paré
Literary History. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 233 (Summer 2017): 50.

November Sun

by David Zieroth
Poets’ Words. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 115 (Winter 1987): 105-106.

Of Flowers

by Shane Rhodes
Writers Talking. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 183 (Winter 2004): 12.

Of Proximity

by Michael Aird
21st-Century Poetics. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 210-211 (Autumn/Winter 2011): 42-42.

Oh Sunflower

by A. F. Moritz
Lost and Found Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 236 (2018): 52.

Olam Habah: The avant-garde and the World-to-come, or the failure of art and the art of failure

by Robert Majzels
21st-Century Poetics. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 210-211 (Autumn/Winter 2011): 219-229.

On a Stupid Husband

by Nathaniel G. Moore
Asian Canadian Critique Beyond the Nation. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 227 (Winter 2015): 94-95.

on the death of paterson ewen

by rob mclennan
Canadian Literature 177 (Summer 2003): 55-55.

Oriste

by Russell Thornton
Marx & Later Dialectics. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 147 (Winter 1995): 75.

Ours for the Picking

by Iain Higgins
Archives and History. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 178 (Autumn 2003): 48-48.

Paddle

by M. Travis Lane
Remembering the Sixties. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 152-153 (Spring/Summer 1997): 205-205.

Palaeozoic

by Adam Dickinson
francophone / anglophone. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 175 (Winter 2002): 42-42.

PAMPHLET

by Mat Laporte
Radio, Film, and Fiction. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 225 (Summer 2015): 46.

Patrick Lane

by Dan MacIsaac
Decolonial (Re)Visions of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 240 (2020): 106.

Pawns and Pieces

by David Solway
Remembering the Sixties. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 152-153 (Spring/Summer 1997): 14-14.

Person of Snow

by John Donlan
Canadian Literature 181 (Summer 2004): 25-25.

Petrified at Every Turn

by Susan McCaslin
Auto/biography. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 172 (Spring 2002): 91-91.

Phone Survey

by Carole Langille
On Thomas King. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 161-162 (Summer/Autumn 1999): 79-80.

Pithy

by Sara Mang
Lost and Found Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 236 (2018): 111-112.

Play-Acting

by Cyril Dabydeen
Canadian Literature 165 (Summer 2000): 25-25.

Pls Be Honest

by Taryn Hubbard
Queer Frontiers. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 224 (Spring 2015): 46.

Poem at Large

by Cyril Dabydeen
Emerging Scholars 2. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 228-229 (Spring/Summer 2016): 52.

Poem in Memory of an Earlier Poem

by Sharon Thesen
25th Anniversary Issue. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 100 (Spring 1984): 310-311.

Poem of Probabilities

by Roger Nash
Documenting the Landscape / Notes on Sinclair Ross. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 103 (Winter 1984): 26.

Poetry Reading in a (Divided) Conference Room

by Anne Swannell
Mothers & Daughters. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 109 (Summer 1986): 84-85.

Polygonics

by John Barton
Women & the Politics of Memory. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 186 (Autumn 2005): 85.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman (with Antlers)

by Jim Johnstone
Spectres of Modernism. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 209 (Summer 2011): 126-126.

PORTRAIT OF THE POET AS FINANCE CAPITAL

by Michael Nardone
Agency & Affect. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 223 (Winter 2014): 49.

Post-Cannibalism

by Cyril Dabydeen
Black Writing in Canada. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 182 (Autumn 2004): 65-66.

post-cordilleran Tsmishian-Tlingit relations (excerpt)

by Derrick Stacey Denholm
Literary History. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 233 (Summer 2017): 69-70.

Post-mortem

by Cyril Dabydeen
Auto/biography. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 172 (Spring 2002): 39-39.

Potluck

by Marilyn Iwama
Literature & War. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 179 (Winter 2003): 70-71.

Powerpoint Presentation

by Lyle Neff
francophone / anglophone. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 175 (Winter 2002): 18.

Prayer for a Family Friend

by Michael V. Smith
Queer Frontiers. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 224 (Spring 2015): 64.

Precipitate of Abandoned Object-Cathexes

by Mark Cochrane
Reading, Writing, Listening Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 241 (2020): 36-37.

Psychosomaton

by Brad Buchanan
francophone / anglophone. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 175 (Winter 2002): 17.

Public Art

by Corals Zheng
Asian Canadian Critique Beyond the Nation. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 227 (Winter 2015): 55.

Publication; after Artie Gold

by Chris Johnson
Rescaling CanLit: Global Readings Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 238 (2019): 29.

Reading

by Susan Glickman
What the Archives Reveal. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 121 (Summer 1989): 25-25.

realistic endless loop

by Jeremy Stewart
Meanwhile, Home. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 232 (Spring 2017): 28.

rectangle 4

by Derek Beaulieu
21st-Century Poetics. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 210-211 (Autumn/Winter 2011): 115.

Rehearsal

by Cyril Dabydeen
Caribbean Connections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 95 (Winter 1982): 28-29.

Religion is a Complete Sentence

by Bola Opaleke
Eclectic Mix Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 234 (Autumn 2017): 13.

River of Air

by John Reibetanz
New Work on Early Canadian Literature. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 213 (Summer 2012): 82-83.

Road Ending

by M. Travis Lane
Fiction in the Seventies. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 92 (Spring 1982): 45.

Rural Fence

by Tom Wayman
Nature / Culture. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 170-171 (Autumn/Winter 2001): 159.

Salon

by Puneet Dutt
Gendering the Archive. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 217 (Summer 2013): 87.

Samson II

by George Elliott Clarke
House, Home, Hospitality Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 237 (2019): 83-84.

Scape

by Jeff Steudel
Indigenous Focus. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 215 (Winter 2012): 103.

Schizophrenic

by Crystal Hurdle
Urquhart and Munro. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 150 (Autumn 1996): 84-85.

Seagulls Twist Air

by Russell Thornton
Science & Literature. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 96 (Spring 1983): 85.

Seaside Town

by Sam Weselowski
Emerging Scholars 2. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 228-229 (Spring/Summer 2016): 188.

Second Poem for Hart Crane

by J. A. Wainwright
Indigenous Focus. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 215 (Winter 2012): 119.

Second-hand Depression

by Crystal Hurdle
Anne Carson. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 176 (Spring 2003): 66.

Self-Portrait in a Display Window

by Iain Higgins
Archives and History. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 178 (Autumn 2003): 89-90.

Self-Portraits in Youth

by Hendrik Slegtenhorst
Canadian Literature 181 (Summer 2004): 60-61.

Self-Timed Photo, Moving Day, 1994

by Derek Webster
Contested Migrations. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 219 (Winter 2013): 75.

Setting the Hook

by Linda Rogers
Literature & the Visual Arts. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 113-114 (Summer/Autumn 1987): 75-75.

Settlement, Mining, Lumbering, Trading

by Shane Rhodes
Canadian Literature 212 (Spring 2012): 85.

Severence Package

by Catherine Owen
Canadian Literature 160 (Spring 1999): 27.

SHADOWS

by Roger Nash
Gabrielle Roy contemporaine/The Contemporary Gabrielle Roy. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 192 (Spring 2007): 44.