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All Poems



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.

Tusk Hunters

by Catherine Greenwood
Poetics and Extraction Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 251 (2022): 125.

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.

Umbra

by Coleena Fanjoy
Canadian Literature 216 (Spring 2013): 84.

Unable to Sway You, Father

by Bernice Lever
B.C. Writers / Reviews Issue. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 102 (Autumn 1984): 6.

Under Lock & Key

by Cyril Dabydeen
60th Anniversary Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 239 (2019): 66-67.

Under the Stars, What a Wonderful World

by Arleen Paré
Meanwhile, Home. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 232 (Spring 2017): 10.

Unsettle

by Sadie McCarney
Canadian Literature 248 (2022): 121.

Untitled (from Trois seconds où la Seine n’a pas coulé)

by Larry Tremblay
Radio, Film, and Fiction. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 225 (Summer 2015): 28.

UNWARDS, The Printing Press in Hell: Testimony II (Spoken by Hades)

by Erina Harris
Pandemics Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 245 (2021): 64-66.

Up & Down Their Hill

by Bill Howell
Meanwhile, Home. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 232 (Spring 2017): 99.

Ursa Major the Great Bear

by Alan R. Wilson
Nature / Culture. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 170-171 (Autumn/Winter 2001): 87.

Vacation

by Cyril Dabydeen
The Moral Novel. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 80 (Spring 1979): 4-4.

Vancouver 2018

by Chelene Knight
Concepts of Vancouver: Poetics, Art, Media Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 235 (Winter 2017): 12-13.

Velocity Text

by Elana Wolff
Science & Canadian Literature. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 221 (Summer 2014): 36.

Venn Diagram

by Weyman Chan
Contested Migrations. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 219 (Winter 2013): 16.

Vestigial

by Elana Wolff
Canadian Literature 247 (2021): 12-13.

View

by John Donlan
Canadian Literature 160 (Spring 1999): 72-72.

Vinnie

by Roger Nash
Systems of Value, Structures of Belief. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 128 (Spring 1991): 89.

Volvo Stationwagon

by Signa A. Daum Shanks
Gendering the Archive. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 217 (Summer 2013): 102-04.

Wally

by J. D. Carpenter
The Structure of Fiction. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 86 (Autumn 1980): 4-5.

Washington Irving.

by David McGimpsey
Science & Canadian Literature. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 221 (Summer 2014): 73.

West Coast Noir

by James Warner
Pandemics Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 245 (2021): 89.

Weytk

by Dawn-Amber Kennedy
Gendering the Archive. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 217 (Summer 2013): 34.

What Can Be Named in Numbers Reassures

by M. Travis Lane
DeMille’s Utopian Fantasy. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 145 (Summer 1995): 20-20.

WHAT HE OWNS

by David Zieroth
Canadian Literature 156 (Spring 1998): 29.

What Remains

by Eric Trethewey
Poets & Politics. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 105 (Summer 1985): 135.

What We Live For

by John Barton
Emerging Scholars, Redux Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 242 (2020): 37.

What’s Good for General Motors

by Dennis Cooley
Popular Culture. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 108 (Spring 1986): 105.

When the curious

by Joseph Dandurand
Concepts of Vancouver: Poetics, Art, Media Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 235 (Winter 2017): 89-90.

where 10 people gather

by Pearl Pirie
Emerging Scholars 2. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 228-229 (Spring/Summer 2016): 150.

Where are you from?

by Angela Long
Asian Canadian Studies Spec issue of Canadian Literature 199 (Winter 2008): 216-216.

White Fruit

by Dave Margoshes
Mothers & Daughters. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 109 (Summer 1986): 15-16.

Why We Don’t Know

by Gerald Hill
Recursive Time. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 222 (Autumn 2014): 69.

Wind Chimes

by Jagjeet Sharma
Returns Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 243 (2020): 59-60.

Wind Elegy

by Tom Wayman
Eclectic Mix Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 234 (Autumn 2017): 109-110.

Windsurfing

by David Solway
Nature, Politics, Poetics. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 136 (Spring 1993): 112-113.

Woman of the Dunes

by Linda Rogers
Mothers & Daughters. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 109 (Summer 1986): 56.

Wore Dresses

by Dave Margoshes
Slavic and East-European Connections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 120 (Spring 1989): 97-98.

XX (from The Minutes)

by Alex Porco
Agency & Affect. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 223 (Winter 2014): 84-85.

Yarrow

by Christopher Patton
Of Borders and Bioregions. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 218 (Autumn 2013): 116.

Yonaoshi

by Steven Heighton
Emerging Scholars. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 226 (Autumn 2015): 93.

You can put your fingers on the feelings

by andrea bennett
Canadian Literature 216 (Spring 2013): 50.

You have a lot on your mind

by K.I. Press
Canadian Literature 169 (Summer 2001): 84.

You vs Us: As If in a Quantum Entanglement

by Changming Yuan
Eclectic Mix Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 234 (Autumn 2017): 32.

Your Poisoned Life

by Barry Dempster
Decolonial (Re)Visions of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 240 (2020): 96-96.

Zorgvlied, Amsterdam

by Eric Miller
Nature / Culture. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 170-171 (Autumn/Winter 2001): 137-139.