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Memory, Marilyn Dumont Nov 2023

Memory, Marilyn Dumont

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Poetry by Marilyn Dumont.


Poetic Tracks And Treading On Indigenous Lands: Examining Marlatt And Warland’S And Akiwenzie-Damm’S Literary Travels To Australia And Aotearoa, Christine C. Campana Nov 2023

Poetic Tracks And Treading On Indigenous Lands: Examining Marlatt And Warland’S And Akiwenzie-Damm’S Literary Travels To Australia And Aotearoa, Christine C. Campana

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This paper considers the work of poets who travel from the area of the Indigenous land of Turtle Island now known as Canada to the Indigenous territories of Australia and Aotearoa. The poets engage in different forms of movement on the land that reveal varying degrees of awareness of and respect for Indigenous sovereignty. In particular, I put “17:00 / coming into Port Pirie” and “30/5 8:50 / past Menindee” from Daphne Marlatt and Betsy Warland’s 1988 Double Negative, an understudied collection of poetry in which the lesbian poets traverse Australia by train while reflecting on travelling through “(ab) …


Fungi Moves, Night Crawler, Tree Futures, Petra Kuppers Nov 2023

Fungi Moves, Night Crawler, Tree Futures, Petra Kuppers

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Three Gothic Eco-Poems by Petra Kuppers.


Co-Editors Notes: Moving On Land? Choose Your Instrument, Tanis Macdonald, Ariel Gordon Nov 2023

Co-Editors Notes: Moving On Land? Choose Your Instrument, Tanis Macdonald, Ariel Gordon

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Editorial Introduction to The Goose Volume 20, Issue 1 (2023).


Moving On Fluvial Land: Human Migration And Liquid Identities In Shiv K. Kumar’S A River With Three Banks, Muhammad Ali, Saira Fatima Dogar Nov 2023

Moving On Fluvial Land: Human Migration And Liquid Identities In Shiv K. Kumar’S A River With Three Banks, Muhammad Ali, Saira Fatima Dogar

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This article argues that any territory’s geological knowledge is essential to the understanding of how and why its inhabitants move on it the way they do. Taking Shiv K Kumar’s novel A River with Three Banks as its primary text, the article focuses on the protagonist, Gautam, whose frequent migrations within his country seem to emerge from his childhood attachment with the rivers of his land, the Indian Subcontinent, the fluvial quality of which is not an unknown phenomenon to geographers around the world. Gautam’s profound knowledge of what flows under his land is thus what shapes his personality, one …


What, Then, Is The Walk?: Reflecting On Pedestrianism In Jane Austen’S Persuasion, Jasmine Redford Nov 2023

What, Then, Is The Walk?: Reflecting On Pedestrianism In Jane Austen’S Persuasion, Jasmine Redford

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Jane Austen’s Persuasion (1818) contains a surprising amount of social walking and leisurely walking parities undertaken by Anne Elliot and her upper-class compatriots. Viewed through an Austenian lens, a reflection of the walk highlights the similarities and differences between nineteenth-century and post-millennial walking for pleasure. What is the cultural history of nineteenth-century pedestrianism in England, and why was it so important in literature and polite society alike? What, then, is the walk? Why indulge in a stroll, a promenade, or a pastoral ramble? How does this sociocultural pedestrianism reinforce the distinction between the classes? Perhaps Austen’s walk, both an …


Note Des Co-Éditrices: Le Déplacement Sur Terra Firma? Choisissez Votre Instrument., Tanis Macdonald, Ariel Gordon Nov 2023

Note Des Co-Éditrices: Le Déplacement Sur Terra Firma? Choisissez Votre Instrument., Tanis Macdonald, Ariel Gordon

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French translation of the Editor's Note by Jasmine Martin-Marcotte.


Sun In Eponymous Glasses: Two Poems, Angela Hibbs Nov 2023

Sun In Eponymous Glasses: Two Poems, Angela Hibbs

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Scintillating nature imagery captured in nouns.


Wahkohtowin: Keeping Things Whole, Lorri Neilsen Glenn Nov 2023

Wahkohtowin: Keeping Things Whole, Lorri Neilsen Glenn

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A personal exploration of human engagement with the land and its creatures.


Weather And Walking: Sensing Snow On Suburban Paths And Trails, Abbi Flint Nov 2023

Weather And Walking: Sensing Snow On Suburban Paths And Trails, Abbi Flint

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In this paper, reflections on walking and archival research come together to explore how weather influences experiences of movement along paths and trails. In this case – a consideration of the different ways that snow shapes multi-sensory, and multi-species, engagements with suburban paths in South Yorkshire, UK.


Learning Lichen, Laura Temple Nov 2023

Learning Lichen, Laura Temple

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This creative nonfiction piece follows an environmental educator’s journey of walking with children through the boreal fog forest of Newfoundland and Labrador’s Avalon Peninsula in the weeks after a hurricane. Noticing the bits of lichen that have fallen off trees and are now coating the forest floor and trails, she reflects on learning, climate disruption, how we relate to each other, and what lichen has to teach us.


Pink Telephone, Gary Barwin, Elee Kraljii Gardiner Nov 2023

Pink Telephone, Gary Barwin, Elee Kraljii Gardiner

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"Pink Telephone" is a psychogeographical exploration of walking in woods considering ideas of communication and internal monologues and situating oneself and one's place in community.


Tetrapod: Adapted For Locomotion Across Land, Amy Wang Nov 2023

Tetrapod: Adapted For Locomotion Across Land, Amy Wang

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Poetry by Amy Wang.


Two Poems, Nicholas Bradley Nov 2023

Two Poems, Nicholas Bradley

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Poetry by Nicholas Bradley


When The Moon Rises And You Want To Sing, Frances Boyle Nov 2023

When The Moon Rises And You Want To Sing, Frances Boyle

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Poetry by Frances Boyle.


“This Is A Book About Relations”: Pollution Is Colonialism By Max Liboiron, Thomas Letcher-Nicholls Nov 2023

“This Is A Book About Relations”: Pollution Is Colonialism By Max Liboiron, Thomas Letcher-Nicholls

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Book Review of Pollution is Colonialism (2021) by Max Liboiron.


Because The Muddiness Of Mud Must Be Uttered: A Personal Essay, Dorothy Ellen Palmer Nov 2023

Because The Muddiness Of Mud Must Be Uttered: A Personal Essay, Dorothy Ellen Palmer

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"Because the Muddiness of Mud Must Be Uttered," by disabled senior writer Dorothy Ellen Palmer, is a personal, braided, nonfiction essay tracing how her access to and understanding of moving on land has been shaped by ableism, ageism, and the pandemic.


Surface Tension, Kerry Ryan Nov 2023

Surface Tension, Kerry Ryan

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"Surface Tension" is a piece of creative nonfiction by Kerry Ryan.


Strolling And Scrolling: On Mycologies And Queer Environmental Futures, Sabine Lebel Nov 2023

Strolling And Scrolling: On Mycologies And Queer Environmental Futures, Sabine Lebel

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This essay uses queer mycologies to advocate for radical rest in the face of anti-queer organizing and hate. The author explains how a burnout diagnosis forced her out of the office and into the woods with her dog. Learning to walk the dog on a leash precipitated a deep queer kinship with the dog, mushrooms, and slide molds in the Acadian forest.


Walking On One Path With Four Stories, Duncan Mercredi Nov 2023

Walking On One Path With Four Stories, Duncan Mercredi

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Poetry by Duncan Mercredi.


The Movement, Ga Hindy Nov 2023

The Movement, Ga Hindy

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Poetry by GA Hindy.


Bindweed, Leanne M.R. Charette Nov 2023

Bindweed, Leanne M.R. Charette

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Poetry by Leanne Charette.


The Divide, John Barton Nov 2023

The Divide, John Barton

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A sonnet on the theme of "Walking on Land."


Reflections From A Maternity Leave: The Complex History Of Beaver Dam Flats And Refinery Park, Emily Ursuliak Nov 2023

Reflections From A Maternity Leave: The Complex History Of Beaver Dam Flats And Refinery Park, Emily Ursuliak

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A personal essay reflecting on my relationship with Refinery Park and Beaver Dam Flats in light of its complex history.


On Foot, Dee Hobsbawn-Smith Nov 2023

On Foot, Dee Hobsbawn-Smith

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“On Foot” is an interdisciplinary examination of the importance of walking and running to the creative life. It is primarily a personal essay braided together with free verse poetry and a small proportion of inquiry into a few famous thinkers and writers who walked regularly. The essay traces a serious foot injury and the effects of that trauma, coupled with the threat of loss of sight, on a writer with a long history of walking and running as part of their creative process. The five poems unspool the sights and sounds of the natural rural world where they walk daily, …


Baby Steps, Amy Neufeld Nov 2023

Baby Steps, Amy Neufeld

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A creative non-fiction piece about childbirth and walking, situating the self and the new child, and climate anxiety and fear for the future.


Before Showtime, Amy Kaler Nov 2023

Before Showtime, Amy Kaler

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In this piece of creative nonfiction, I reflect on the experience of having time on my hands in peri-urban spaces that are characterized by transience, liminality, and contingency, while waiting for performance time at youth cheerleading competitions. I describe walking around these places, specifically Las Vegas and Abbotsford (BC). I connect my experience to other accounts of aimless wandering, such as the "derive" of psychogeography, and note the ways in which the exercises of power and potential world-ending catastrophe are present, but latent, in these landscapes. In particular, I consider the historic cold-war threat of a nuclear bomb as well …


Evening Journeys, Erna Buffie Nov 2023

Evening Journeys, Erna Buffie

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"Evening Journeys" documents five canoe trips over a period of eleven days stay on a lake that straddles the Manitoba/Ontario border. It explores what it means to move on water, how it connects me to nature and how I cope with the pain in my body as well as the emotional pain caused by recent wildfires and the looming ecological crises.


Natsukashii – Time And Place, Yvonne Blomer Nov 2023

Natsukashii – Time And Place, Yvonne Blomer

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A woman walks her dog along Fort Street in Victoria, BC and ponders the senses, the past and present while her son is in music therapy class.


Falling Into Action, Kent Hoffman Nov 2023

Falling Into Action, Kent Hoffman

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Kent Hoffman explores human movement, his own mobility, and how it influences the way he moves on land. This personal essay, told through the lens of disability and accessibility, outlines his experience of living with Becker muscular dystrophy. Hoffman's approach to walking and mobility is heavily influenced by a fear of falling. As his mobility is changing, he's adapting and seeking out new ways to move on land. Different modes of mobility determine the way we experience personal movement, but accessibility determines who is welcome in spaces in the first place. Accessibility in the form of providing equal access is …