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Cohen, Leonard - Book of Longing
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McCabe, Steve - Hierarchy of Loss
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McOrmond, Steve - The Good News About Armageddon
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Outram, Richard - South of North - Images of Canada
Press, K.I. - Types of Canadian Women
Price, Steven - Anatomy of Keys
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Ross, Stuart - I Cut My Finger
Rosser, J. Allyn - Foiled Again
Ruthig, Ingrid - Richard Outram: Essays on his Work
Smith, Douglas Burnet - Sister Prometheus: Discovering Marie Curie
Spears, Heather - I Can Still Draw
Starnino, Carmine - This Way Out
Surani, Moez - Reticent Bodies
Swift, Todd - Seaway: new and selected poems
Sword, Robert - God Is In The Cracks: A Narrative In Voices
Terpstra, John - Two or Three Guitars
Various Authors - Frontenac Quartet
Vigier, Rachel - The Book of Skeletons
Wallin, Myna - A Thousand Profane Pieces
Alland, Sandra - By Dani Couture
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Banks, Chris - By Paul Vermeersch
Bell, Roger - By Jacob Bachinger
Buffam, Susanne - By Alessandro Porco
Burgham, Ian - By Catherine Graham
Carberry, Colin - By Alex Boyd
Foreman, Gabe - By Carmelo Militano
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Hickey, David - By Ian Letourneau
Kotsilidis, Leigh - By Ingrid Ruthig
McGrath, Robin - By Jacob Bachinger
Militano, Carmelo - By Alex Boyd
Murray, George - By Dani Couture
Nuhanovic, Natasha - By Lori A. May
Partridge, Elise - By Dani Couture
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Skibsrud, Johanna - By Alessandro Porco
Starnino, Carmine - By Dani Couture
Sutherland, Fraser - By Alex Boyd
Tierney, Matthew - By Alex Boyd
Wallin, Myna - By Dani Couture
Wells, Zachariah - By Dani Couture
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Miller, Eric - History and Survival
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So, I'd like to start with a comment made near the end of your Late Nights with Wild Cowboys, in the poem "Jawbone." You express real fear and anxiety over the prospect of having your life and love be objectified, turned into summary, a bowdlerized rendering that "[leaves] nearly everything out." More than that, though, you are worried about how we ourselves are complicit in this sort of exclusionary act. I guess what I'd like to ask first, then, is: do you imagine poetry as a means of letting things in rather than keeping everything out? And what are you aiming to let in, exactly?
I really do think of poetry in that way, in terms of providing a space -- an opening -- in which it might be possible to say the things that are hard, and perhaps impossible, to say otherwise; in which to express that inarticulate feeling that you get sometimes...continue reading
Steve McOrmond's new collection of poems begins with a caution. In the style of TV content warnings, "Advisory" lists potential disturbing content to come: "themes which could threaten the viewer's sense of security," "Evidence of fatalism and irreligion," and the typical forewarnings about sexuality, violence and "language." Here McOrmond displays the dual cautionary and playful perspectives that interact throughout the book, switching from warnings about a drowning and an animal attack to the line, "The following program may contain scenes not suitable for language."
The poem raises the expected questions about what we censor and screen in popular media. What is considered objectionable, and why? Placed at the start of a collection whose title references Armageddon, "Advisory" leads the reader to expect a certain discomfort.
With that warning, the book moves to the title...continue reading