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Three Poems, Renée Jackson-Harper Feb 2018

Three Poems, Renée Jackson-Harper

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Poetry by Renée Jackson-Harper


Making Common Causes: Crises, Conflict, Creation, Conversations: Offerings From The Biennial Alecc Conference Queen’S University, Kingston 2016, Jenny Kerber, Astrida Neimanis, Pamela Banting, Tania Aguila-Way, Ron Benner, Mick Smith, Adeline Johns-Putra, Peter C. Van Wyck Feb 2017

Making Common Causes: Crises, Conflict, Creation, Conversations: Offerings From The Biennial Alecc Conference Queen’S University, Kingston 2016, Jenny Kerber, Astrida Neimanis, Pamela Banting, Tania Aguila-Way, Ron Benner, Mick Smith, Adeline Johns-Putra, Peter C. Van Wyck

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At ALECC’s biennial gathering at Queen’s University in June 2016, participants came together to explore the possibilities of “making common causes” from a host of angles, yet all were anchored in an acknowledgement of the diverse more-than-human relationships that make up our common worlds. The following collection of short essays, authored by some of the gathering’s keynote speakers, explores specific aspects of making common causes. In this special section of The Goose, we deliberately invoke the plural of conversation. We understand the effort to make common causes as a process, rather than a “one and done” act. It is multifaceted …


Magnetic North, Pyramiden, Svalbard, Jenna Butler Mar 2016

Magnetic North, Pyramiden, Svalbard, Jenna Butler

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excerpts from Magnetic North Pyramiden, Svalbard


Branches Over Ripples: A Waterside Journal, Brian Bartlett Mar 2016

Branches Over Ripples: A Waterside Journal, Brian Bartlett

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Branches Over Ripples: A Waterside Journal is a fifty-entry plein-air writing project drafted between April 2013 and October 2014 by various bodies of water—rivers, brooks, lakes, bays, marshes, waterfalls, a vernal pond, a Japanese koi pond. Most of the writing was done in Nova Scotia locations, but some entries were drafted in New Brunswick, Montreal, Missouri, Manhattan, and London, England. I often walked from an hour to four or five hours, then sat down on bare earth, grass, sand, stone, or wood, and wrote, keeping attuned to my surroundings but also letting my mind and memory wander.


Northern Planing Mills, Adam Dickinson Mar 2016

Northern Planing Mills, Adam Dickinson

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a poem.


Fire Sale, Emily Mcgiffin Mar 2016

Fire Sale, Emily Mcgiffin

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a poem.


Vex, A Rawlings Mar 2016

Vex, A Rawlings

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"Vex" is a visual poem from the serial work Dump. The series focuses on language discarded at rural Canadian landfill sites. "Vex" was sourced at Kennisis Lake Landfill Site, July 2014.


Glove, David Zieroth Mar 2016

Glove, David Zieroth

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a poem


The Stag Head Spoke By Erina Harris, Joel Deshaye Aug 2015

The Stag Head Spoke By Erina Harris, Joel Deshaye

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Joel Deshaye reviews Erina Harris's book of poetry entitled The Stag Head Spoke.


Ringing Here & There: A Nature Calendar By Brian Bartlett, Joel Deshaye Aug 2015

Ringing Here & There: A Nature Calendar By Brian Bartlett, Joel Deshaye

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Joel Deshaye reviews Brian Bartlett's Ringing Here & There: A Nature Calendar


The Oxford Handbook Of Ecocriticism Edited By Greg Garrard, Camilla Nelson Dr Aug 2015

The Oxford Handbook Of Ecocriticism Edited By Greg Garrard, Camilla Nelson Dr

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Camilla Nelson reviews The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism, edited by Greg Garrard


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

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


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.