Northern British Columbia: Six Poets
I sought these poets knowing I was catching only a slice of northern BC’s writers, in order to offer a glimpse into some of what’s going on out here. This doesn’t represent a renaissance – there have been poets toiling in these eskers and valleys for ages – but it’s proof of a region’s literature...
Kevin McPherson: faux foe
faux foe 1. lover pain but ado, mine blinder tenant ton or ours, pale fins 2. pair pour chair pays reporter rein main bail blesser bras seize dire surgeon 3. car imposition ride habits bribe pipes waters parole, volatile pond ...
Call for Work: New Winnipeg Poets
Jonathan Ball will edit Lemon Hound’s forthcoming folio spotlighting New Winnipeg Poets. We seek poetry from Winnipeg (and surrounding area) writers that have produced no more than two books. Please submit no more than four previously unpublished poems, along with a brief bio, to jonathan@jonathanball.com with the subject line “Lemon Hound Submission” by March 1st,...
Donato Mancini: from Loitersack
To advance slide show click on the page. [Show picture list] Donato Mancini makes visual and procedural poetry, bookworks, and visual art. His main books are: SNOWLINE (2015), Buffet World (2011) Fact 'N' Value (2011), Æthel (2007) and Ligatures (2005). Notable exhibitions of Mancini’s visual artworks have included exhibitions through Artspeak, Western Front, Gallery Atsui, Malaspina...
John Thompson: Professor’s Last Stand
PROFESSOR'S LAST STAND Don't believe I'm here: I've packed, gone without a trace somewhere north of north, or I'm lying in the oily arms of the richest woman in Calgary, Alberta; don't you realise? I've been disappearing all year: at least half of me is eating tea-dunked chappatis outside Katmandu and...
Lynn Coady: Four Questions
Frankie Barnet: Place plays a significant role in your work. Stories like "Wireless", "Hellgoing" and "Another World" all seem to have an interest in exploring and critiquing cosmopolitan aspects of city life, as well as differences between city and country life. You yourself are from Cape Breton but now live in Edmonton. How important is...
Tim Cresswell: Three poems
A GLASS OF WATER They say this glass of London water passed through eight bodies before mine. Starting near Heathrow. A Sikh cabby. The morning shift. Then teacher between classes, a young woman, Kiwi, fit to burst. A Southall market seller, bagging mangoes and bitter gourd. A man who lives on a Brentford boat, pissing...
Stephen Collis: from Redactical
1 Stuck again we came up with something else Tried gluing the cardboard shards of boxes To our heads and backs like The defensive plates and spikes Of dinosaurs we weren’t but were becoming Or drove out west like a movie we remember Where girls feet rest on the dash Window prism light listening to...
Margaret Christakos: Crossing Over: Temporalities of Erasure and Recuperation in the Contemporary Long Poem
Crossing Over: Temporalities of Erasure and Recuperation in the Contemporary Long Poem, For Example, in Erín Moure’s The Unmemntioable and M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! by Margaret Christakos One is adrift, the many drifts. Glen Lowry, “Of—If Not In—A Vernacular,” West Coast Line 50 “Staging Vernaculars”:4-6. I woke Sun Feb 2, 2014...
Damian Rogers on Elise Partridge
ON GENEROSITY, CORRESPONDENCE, AND EMBRACING EXILE I think the exile of poetry is also the exile of the best of humankind. —Octavio Paz Why shouldn’t I drift off like a lost balloon? But you gave me another gift: “I’ll carry you in my heart till my last day on earth.” —Elise Partridge One week ago...
Lynn Crosbie: Three Poems
Lynn Crosbie is a Toronto writer. Some of the poems from this collection, The Corpses of the Future, have appeared in Highway magazine. Her new novel Where Did You Sleep Last Night comes out this spring with House of Anansi Press. Her latest e-short story/fanfic, "Little Snowfall" is online now.
