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october 27 from a day book The start of losing her / was knowing what could be missed: -- Shane Rhodes the name for what is left behind, the...

GHAZAL OF THE EMPTY THING by Cole Swensen GHAZAL OF THE EMPTY THING Her brows crowded together An unbroken line. The army advancing A mile w...

an opening, a letter: some notes on Fred Wah & Open Letter’s Alley Alley Home Free "once carried is also held" – Fred Wah Fra...

a poetics of small things As what Robert Creeley wrote, small moments of domestic under an umbrella of Pieces . Under the title For Love . M...

Ongoing notes etc, September 2004 Prince George, British Columbia: I got four lovely chapbooks in the mail from Prince George, B.C. poe...

this was actually written for lovely angela rawlings for her nether :: a review dialogue ( http://www.commutiny.net/her/ ), after she sent o...

Rapture Red & Smoke Grey , Sarah Gordon 2003, Turnstone Press, 72 pages isbn 0-88801-285-3, $12.95 if I get to the base of things, of de...

Karl Siegler (publisher of Vancouver's Talonbooks) Wins Award! I just found out about this. Congrats to Karl (& his lovely wife Chri...

Ongoing notes etc, late August 2004 Toronto, Ontario: After her first collection made so much noise (her 2001 collection from Brick Book...

Ghazal of July Storm by Matthew Holmes Ghazal of July Storm The smell of greenstalk tomatoes on my fingers The wind pressing into windows t...

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Rules of the House 2002, Apogee Press, $12.95 US 96 pages, isbn 0 9669937 9 9 It is not the accuracy of the story tha...

Judy Tenuda, Love Goddess A little off-topic, but I miss Judy Tenuda. Whatever happened to her? I miss her accordion wisdom. Here ar...

Ongoing notes etc, August 2004 It’s summer, & I just got back from a week & a half spent on my parents’ farm with my lovely daug...

NonZero Definitions , Gil McElroy 2004, Talonbooks, 132 pages isbn 0-88922-499-4, $16.95 CAD/$12.95 USD “not / the next / thought // but the...

June 17 (from a day book) met a physic on the road asked him so it is with journeys one is drawn – bpNichol ...

Open Letter to The Danforth Review , re: Shane Neilson Over the years, New Brunswick writer Shane Neilson has reviewed a number of my tr...

On recent reissues: Gerry Gilbert’s Moby Jane & Peter Van Toorn’s Mountain Tea It seems the days of Canadian publishing are rife with re...

Tour Notes, part two Another range of dates, another range of things. Although I know there’s still a whole swath of things I haven’t c...

a bite out of ga: Montreal’s ga press Part of an intense burst of anglo literary activity in Montreal was Colin Christie and Corey Frost...