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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) …


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


The Middle Of The Middle: Purgatory, Pilgrimage, And Human And Plant Mobility In A Time Of Climate Crisis, Stephen S. Collis Nov 2023

The Middle Of The Middle: Purgatory, Pilgrimage, And Human And Plant Mobility In A Time Of Climate Crisis, Stephen S. Collis

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This paper, adapted from a talk given for the Institute of the Humanities at Simon Fraser University on April 26 2023, explores intersecting issues taken up by an in-progress long poem I am currently writing. That long poem, “The Middle,” explores questions of climate displacement, migration, and refuge via a writing-though of Dante’s Purgatorio—itself a poem of pilgrimage. A further context for both the poem and the paper about the poem is an ongoing project of walking in solidarity with refugees, asylum seekers, and immigration detainees that the author has been involved with since 2015. In seeking to “override …


Long Before Gps, Leanne Shirtliffe Jun 2023

Long Before Gps, Leanne Shirtliffe

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Poetry by Leanne Shirtlife.


Three Poems, Tom Cull Nov 2022

Three Poems, Tom Cull

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Poetry by Tom Cull


Two Poems From A Lichen Alphabet, Clare Goulet Oct 2022

Two Poems From A Lichen Alphabet, Clare Goulet

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Poetry by Clare Goulet


Losing Count: A Re-Collection, By Numbers, Kim D. Hester Williams Sep 2021

Losing Count: A Re-Collection, By Numbers, Kim D. Hester Williams

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Poetry by Kim D. Hester Williams


Immune Boost, Early Pandemic, Lisa Richter Nov 2020

Immune Boost, Early Pandemic, Lisa Richter

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"Immune Boost, Early Pandemic" by Lisa Richter


"Circulation Of Officialdom (Or) A Letter Arrives On My Gov’T Employee Desk", Gabriela Halas Oct 2020

"Circulation Of Officialdom (Or) A Letter Arrives On My Gov’T Employee Desk", Gabriela Halas

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"Circulation of officialdom (or) a letter arrives on my gov’t employee desk" by Gabriela Halas


5 Poems Beginning With The Moon, Yvonne E. Blomer Oct 2020

5 Poems Beginning With The Moon, Yvonne E. Blomer

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Five poems that explore isolation, the environment and meandering thoughts, sometimes with a hint of irony.


Goldenrods, Cory Willard Oct 2020

Goldenrods, Cory Willard

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This poem centres around finding something familiar in a new place. Through comparing the goldenrods of Nebraska with those in Alberta, the author finds a connection that speaks to finding one's place in a new landscape as well as re-evaluating what has been left behind.


Anatomic By Adam Dickinson, Heather Houser May 2020

Anatomic By Adam Dickinson, Heather Houser

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Review of Adam Dickinson's Anatomic.


The Figure Of The Animal In Modern And Contemporary Poetry By Michael Malay, Brian Bartlett Mar 2020

The Figure Of The Animal In Modern And Contemporary Poetry By Michael Malay, Brian Bartlett

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Review of Michael Malay's The Figure of the Animal in Modern and Contemporary Poetry


Hawk On Wire: Ecopoems By Scott T. Starbuck, Vivian M. Hansen Jun 2019

Hawk On Wire: Ecopoems By Scott T. Starbuck, Vivian M. Hansen

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Review of Scott T. Starbuck’s Hawk on Wire: Ecopoems


Anthropocene Blues By John Lane, Jessica S. Cory Jun 2019

Anthropocene Blues By John Lane, Jessica S. Cory

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Review of John Lane's Anthropocene Blues


Shale Play: Poems And Photographs From The Fracking Fields By Julia Spicher Kasdorf And Steven Rubin, Kelly Shepherd Jun 2019

Shale Play: Poems And Photographs From The Fracking Fields By Julia Spicher Kasdorf And Steven Rubin, Kelly Shepherd

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Review of Julia Spicher Kasdorf and Steven Rubin's Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields


Blockade, Rob B. Budde Jun 2019

Blockade, Rob B. Budde

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Poetry by Rob B. Budde


Cranberry Picking Season, Lois Beardslee Jun 2019

Cranberry Picking Season, Lois Beardslee

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Poetry by Lois Beardslee


Conservation, Laurie D. Graham Jun 2019

Conservation, Laurie D. Graham

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Poetry by Laurie D. Graham


Weather, Yvonne E. Blomer Sep 2018

Weather, Yvonne E. Blomer

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Poetry by Yvonne Blomer.


Season Of Fires, Rina Garcia Chua Sep 2018

Season Of Fires, Rina Garcia Chua

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"Season of Fires" is an exploration of the intersection of loss, denial, and acceptance during the 2017 wildfire season in the Okanagan Valley.


The Weather, Rob B. Budde Sep 2018

The Weather, Rob B. Budde

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Poetry by Rob Budde.


Uncontrolled Burn, Elizabeth Miller Sep 2018

Uncontrolled Burn, Elizabeth Miller

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Poetry by Elizabeth Miller.


Plasticpoems, Fiona Tinwei Lam Sep 2018

Plasticpoems, Fiona Tinwei Lam

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These are poems that comment on and depict the extensiveness of marine plastic pollution and the overflow of plastics in landfills in our environment in a humorous and pictorial way via concrete/visual poetry.


Two Poems, Ariel Kroon Sep 2018

Two Poems, Ariel Kroon

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Poetry by Ariel Kroon.


Sea Squad, Liam Geary Baulch Sep 2018

Sea Squad, Liam Geary Baulch

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The Sea Squad is a band of cheerleaders against climate change. Taking action as a team in formation, they gather momentum, inviting all people to cheer with them, mimicking the infinitely expandable nature of the seas' molecular structure. The work was developed and performed as a bilingual project at Est-Nord-Est in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec, Canada, and has since been performed and exhibited internationally. The following poems are some of the chants that Sea Squad use to get a crowd cheering together against climate change.


Four Poems, Tanis Macdonald Sep 2018

Four Poems, Tanis Macdonald

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Poetry by Tanis MacDonald.


Auguries By Clea Roberts, Kate Braid Aug 2018

Auguries By Clea Roberts, Kate Braid

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Review of Clea Roberts' Auguries.


Welcome To The Anthropocene By Alice Major, Gillian Harding-Russell Aug 2018

Welcome To The Anthropocene By Alice Major, Gillian Harding-Russell

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Review of Alice Major's Welcome to the Anthropocene.