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Vernal Pool: A Participatory Art Project About Place + Precipitation, Karen Miranda Abel, Jessica Marion Barr Nov 2014

Vernal Pool: A Participatory Art Project About Place + Precipitation, Karen Miranda Abel, Jessica Marion Barr

The Goose

Produced by Karen Miranda Abel with Jessica Marion Barr, Vernal Pool is an immersive, elemental water installation created as a participatory, contemplative inquiry into our transitory interrelationships with water and landscape. From November 2013 to April 2014, 114 individuals across Canada and abroad gathered snow samples as a form of extrinsic artistic practice about place and precipitation. With the arrival of spring, the reservoir of melted snow was convened for four days at Toronto’s historic Gladstone Hotel to create Vernal Pool.


(In)Famous Cover Tunes Of 2014, Simon Orpana Oct 2014

(In)Famous Cover Tunes Of 2014, Simon Orpana

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A cartoon and commentary by Simon Orpana.


Editor's Notebook, Lisa Szabo-Jones, Paul Huebener Sep 2014

Editor's Notebook, Lisa Szabo-Jones, Paul Huebener

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Editorial introduction to The Goose Volume 13, Issue 1 (2014).


Guddling About: Experiments In Vital Materialism With Particular Regard To Water, Minty Donald Aug 2014

Guddling About: Experiments In Vital Materialism With Particular Regard To Water, Minty Donald

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With reference to Jane Bennett’s notion of "vital materialism," this photo essay documents and reflects on Guddling About: a series of experiments or actions carried out by artists Nick Millar and Minty Donald with the Bow River and its watershed in Calgary and Southern Alberta in August-September 2013. Each experiment is described as a set of instructions — a script or score for an event — which can be enacted in any location where human settlement has evolved around a river. The experiments will be repeated, and new ones developed, with the River Clyde in Glasgow and Southern Scotland in …


Two Poems: "Wind Scene" And "Touch / The Radicle Thus Endowed", Julie Joosten Aug 2014

Two Poems: "Wind Scene" And "Touch / The Radicle Thus Endowed", Julie Joosten

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Two poems by Julie Joosten.


Wildwood Illume, Purling Water, Cecily Nicholson Aug 2014

Wildwood Illume, Purling Water, Cecily Nicholson

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Poetry by Cecily Nicholson.


Two Poems: "Economy Class Particulate View" And "Daynotes On Fields & Forms (Flittings)", Linda Russo Aug 2014

Two Poems: "Economy Class Particulate View" And "Daynotes On Fields & Forms (Flittings)", Linda Russo

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Poetry by Linda Russo.


Two Poems: "North" And "The Venus Flytrap", Souvankham Thammavongsa Aug 2014

Two Poems: "North" And "The Venus Flytrap", Souvankham Thammavongsa

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Poetry by Souvankham Thammavongsa.


Three Poems From "The Elder Project," Vernon School District 22, Brian Antoine, Yetko Brooke Bearshirt-Robins, John (Wilke) Louis, Lindsy Oppenheimer, Vicky Raphael, Lenaya Sampson Aug 2014

Three Poems From "The Elder Project," Vernon School District 22, Brian Antoine, Yetko Brooke Bearshirt-Robins, John (Wilke) Louis, Lindsy Oppenheimer, Vicky Raphael, Lenaya Sampson

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Poetry by Vernon School District secondary students and their elders, in collaboration with The Elder Project organized by Wendy Morton and Sandra Lynxleg.


Sonaranos Refractions, Kathleen Brown Aug 2014

Sonaranos Refractions, Kathleen Brown

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Poetry by Kathleen Brown.


The Shell Of The Tortoise: Four Essays & An Assemblage By Don Mckay, Tonia L. Payne Aug 2014

The Shell Of The Tortoise: Four Essays & An Assemblage By Don Mckay, Tonia L. Payne

The Goose

Review of The Shell of the Tortoise: Four Essays & an Assemblage by Don McKay.


Supplying Salt And Light By Lorna Goodison, Pamela Herron Aug 2014

Supplying Salt And Light By Lorna Goodison, Pamela Herron

The Goose

Review of Supplying Salt and Light by Lorna Goodison.


The Polymers By Adam Dickinson, Camilla Nelson Aug 2014

The Polymers By Adam Dickinson, Camilla Nelson

The Goose

Review of The Polymers by Adam Dickinson.


The Forest Unseen: A Year’S Watch In Nature By David George Haskell, Brigette Bernagozzi Aug 2014

The Forest Unseen: A Year’S Watch In Nature By David George Haskell, Brigette Bernagozzi

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Review of The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature by David George Haskell.


Caraway & Pippins By Harold Rhenisch, Laura Castonguay Aug 2014

Caraway & Pippins By Harold Rhenisch, Laura Castonguay

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Review of Caraway & Pippins by Harold Rhenisch.


Human Dependence On Nature: How To Help Solve The Environmental Crisis By Haydn Washington, Lorelei Hanson Aug 2014

Human Dependence On Nature: How To Help Solve The Environmental Crisis By Haydn Washington, Lorelei Hanson

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Review of Human Dependence on Nature: How to Help Solve the Environmental Crisis by Haydn Washington.


Growing Resistance: Canadian Farmers And The Politics Of Genetically Modified Wheat By Emily Eaton, Aubrey R. Streit Krug Aug 2014

Growing Resistance: Canadian Farmers And The Politics Of Genetically Modified Wheat By Emily Eaton, Aubrey R. Streit Krug

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Review of Growing Resistance: Canadian Farmers and the Politics of Genetically Modified Wheat by Emily Eaton.


Ornithologies Of Desire: Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, And Don Mckay By Travis V. Mason, Maureen Scott Harris Aug 2014

Ornithologies Of Desire: Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, And Don Mckay By Travis V. Mason, Maureen Scott Harris

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Review of Ornithologies of Desire: Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, and Don McKay by Travis V. Mason.


Fire Watcher By Vivian Demuth, Anna Banks Aug 2014

Fire Watcher By Vivian Demuth, Anna Banks

The Goose

Review of Fire Watcher by Vivian Demuth.


Late Moon By Pamela Porter And The Family China By Ann Shin, Lindsay Diehl Aug 2014

Late Moon By Pamela Porter And The Family China By Ann Shin, Lindsay Diehl

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Review of Late Moon by Pamela Porter and The Family China by Ann Shin.


Critical Animal Studies: An Introduction By Dawne Mccance, Rosemary-Claire Collard Aug 2014

Critical Animal Studies: An Introduction By Dawne Mccance, Rosemary-Claire Collard

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Review of Critical Animal Studies: An Introduction by Dawne McCance.


Animals And War: Studies Of Europe And North America Edited By Ryan Hediger, Rebecca Raglon Aug 2014

Animals And War: Studies Of Europe And North America Edited By Ryan Hediger, Rebecca Raglon

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Review of Animals and War: Studies of Europe and North America, edited by Ryan Hediger.


Expanding The Circle: New Poets To The Goose, Sonnet L'Abbé Jul 2014

Expanding The Circle: New Poets To The Goose, Sonnet L'Abbé

The Goose

An introduction to the poets whose work appears in The Goose for the first time in this issue.


Wild Life, Jordan Abel Jul 2014

Wild Life, Jordan Abel

The Goose

Poetry by Jordan Abel. This poem is composed from 91 public domain Western novels that are freely available on Project Gutenberg. In total, the source text is over 10,000 pages long and is authored by 20 different writers. When all of the novels were searched simultaneously, there were 41 instances of the phrase "wild life." The resulting poem provides a contextual space where the language of a single word or phrase can be read.


Moose: Recollections From A Northern Childhood, Allison K. Athens Jul 2014

Moose: Recollections From A Northern Childhood, Allison K. Athens

The Goose

A creative reflection on growing up with moose.


The Lease By Mathew Henderson, Jon Gordon Jul 2014

The Lease By Mathew Henderson, Jon Gordon

The Goose

Review of The Lease by Mathew Henderson.


Ocean By Sue Goyette And Timely Irreverence By Jay Millar, Chad Weidner Jul 2014

Ocean By Sue Goyette And Timely Irreverence By Jay Millar, Chad Weidner

The Goose

Review of Ocean by Sue Goyette and Timely Irreverence by Jay MillAr.


Perdita By Hilary Scharper, Nicole Bartley Jul 2014

Perdita By Hilary Scharper, Nicole Bartley

The Goose

Review of Perdita by Hilary Scharper.


Brilliant Falls By John Terpstra And Placeholder By Charmaine Cadeau, Matthew Zantingh Jul 2014

Brilliant Falls By John Terpstra And Placeholder By Charmaine Cadeau, Matthew Zantingh

The Goose

Review of Brilliant Falls by John Terpstra and placeholder by Charmaine Cadeau.


The Resurrection Of Joseph Bourne: Or A Word Or Two On Those Port Annie Miracles By Jack Hodgins, Dania Tomlinson Jul 2014

The Resurrection Of Joseph Bourne: Or A Word Or Two On Those Port Annie Miracles By Jack Hodgins, Dania Tomlinson

The Goose

Review of The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne: Or a Word or Two on Those Port Annie Miracles by Jack Hodgins.