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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) …


Two Poems, Nicholas Bradley Nov 2023

Two Poems, Nicholas Bradley

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Poetry by Nicholas Bradley


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


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


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.


Tar Swan By David Martin, Melanie Dennis Unrau Aug 2018

Tar Swan By David Martin, Melanie Dennis Unrau

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Review of David Martin's Tar Swan.


Sôhkêyihta: The Poetry Of Sky Dancer By Louise Bernice Halfe And Why Indigenous Literatures Matter By Daniel Heath Justice, Chad Weidner Aug 2018

Sôhkêyihta: The Poetry Of Sky Dancer By Louise Bernice Halfe And Why Indigenous Literatures Matter By Daniel Heath Justice, Chad Weidner

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Review of Louise Bernice Halfe's Sôhkêyihta: The Poetry of Sky Dancer and Daniel Heath Justice's Why Indigenous Literatures Matter.


No Tv For Woodpeckers By Gary Barwin, If Pressed By Andrew Mcewan, And Ecology Without Culture: Aesthetics For A Toxic World By Christine L. Marran, Michael D. Sloane Aug 2018

No Tv For Woodpeckers By Gary Barwin, If Pressed By Andrew Mcewan, And Ecology Without Culture: Aesthetics For A Toxic World By Christine L. Marran, Michael D. Sloane

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Review of Gary Barwin's No TV for Woodpeckers, Andrew McEwan's If Pressed, and Christine L. Marran's Ecology without Culture: Aesthetics for a Toxic World.


Rain Shadow By Nicholas Bradley And Cloud Physics By Karen Enns, Kelly Shepherd Aug 2018

Rain Shadow By Nicholas Bradley And Cloud Physics By Karen Enns, Kelly Shepherd

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Review of Nicholas Bradley's Rain Shadow and Karen Enns' Cloud Physics.


Two Poems, Joanna Lilley Feb 2018

Two Poems, Joanna Lilley

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Poetry by Joanna Lilley.


Two Poems, Clea Roberts Feb 2018

Two Poems, Clea Roberts

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Poetry by Clea Roberts


Two Poems, Dan Macisaac Feb 2018

Two Poems, Dan Macisaac

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Poetry by Dan MacIsaac


A Collaboration Of Poetry And Art: The Krill Kill Project, Diane Guichon, Sarah Melanie Harrill Feb 2018

A Collaboration Of Poetry And Art: The Krill Kill Project, Diane Guichon, Sarah Melanie Harrill

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Artist Sarah Melanie Harrill interrogates poet Diane Guichon's poem "Krill Kill" in this project of interwoven, creative representations and musings on the connectivity between nature and humanity. This project formed part of the Calgary People's Poetry Festival in the fall of 2017.


Museum Archipelago, Elizabeth Dodd Feb 2018

Museum Archipelago, Elizabeth Dodd

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Poetry by Elizabeth Dodd


Three Poems, Renée Jackson-Harper Feb 2018

Three Poems, Renée Jackson-Harper

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Poetry by Renée Jackson-Harper


Rag Cosmology By Erin Robinsong, Camilla Nelson Feb 2018

Rag Cosmology By Erin Robinsong, Camilla Nelson

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Review of Erin Robinsong's Rag Cosmology.


Islands Of Grass By Trevor Herriot And The Long Walk By Jan Zwicky, Gillian Harding-Russell Feb 2018

Islands Of Grass By Trevor Herriot And The Long Walk By Jan Zwicky, Gillian Harding-Russell

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Review of Trevor Herriot's Islands of Grass and Jan Zwicky's The Long Walk.


All The Names Between By Julia Mccarthy And The Girls With Stone Faces By Arleen Paré, Erin Renee Wahl Feb 2018

All The Names Between By Julia Mccarthy And The Girls With Stone Faces By Arleen Paré, Erin Renee Wahl

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Review of Arleen Paré's The Girls with Stone Faces and Julia McCarthy's All the Names Between.


The Wilds Of Poetry: Adventures In Mind And Landscape By David Hinton, Joel Weishaus Feb 2018

The Wilds Of Poetry: Adventures In Mind And Landscape By David Hinton, Joel Weishaus

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Review of David Hinton’s The Wilds of Poetry: Adventure’s in Mind and Landscape.


Better Nature By Fenn Stewart, Claire Caldwell Feb 2018

Better Nature By Fenn Stewart, Claire Caldwell

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Review of Fenn Stewart's Better Nature.


Birdmania: A Remarkable Passion For Birds By Bernd Brunner, Mozart's Starling By Lyanda Lynn Haupt, And Birds Art Life By Kyo Maclear, Nancy Lee Menning Feb 2018

Birdmania: A Remarkable Passion For Birds By Bernd Brunner, Mozart's Starling By Lyanda Lynn Haupt, And Birds Art Life By Kyo Maclear, Nancy Lee Menning

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Review of Bernd Brunner's Birdmania: A Remarkable Passion for Birds, Lyanda Lynn Haupt's Mozart's Starling, and Ky Maclear's Birds Art Life.


Dust Or Fire By Alyda Faber, Brandi Estey-Burtt Feb 2018

Dust Or Fire By Alyda Faber, Brandi Estey-Burtt

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Review of Alyda Faber's Dust or Fire.


Caribou Run By Richard Kelly Kemick, Emily Mcgiffin Feb 2018

Caribou Run By Richard Kelly Kemick, Emily Mcgiffin

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Review of Richard Kelly Kemick's Caribou Run.


Otolith By Emily Nilsen, Christine Lowther Aug 2017

Otolith By Emily Nilsen, Christine Lowther

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Review of Emily Nilsen's Otolith.


Barking & Biting: The Poetry Of Sina Queyras Selected By Erin Wunker, Jenny Kerber Aug 2017

Barking & Biting: The Poetry Of Sina Queyras Selected By Erin Wunker, Jenny Kerber

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Review of Erin Wunker's (ed.) Barking & Biting: The Poetry of Sina Queyras.