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One Of These Things: A Poetic Exploration Of Waste And Discordant Objects, Brittany Ellsworth

The Goose

In this narrative essay, I present my thoughts and concerns about the physical waste I encounter on my adventures in my hometown of Corner Brook, NL. I also introduce and differentiate between garbage and my proposed concept of discordant objects and how these objects have inspired my poetic and creative writing practice. The essay concludes with a poem and photograph of one such discordant object.

How Long Until No Longer This? Notes On Incomplete Research Into How Long It Will Take These Mylar Balloons In The Shape Of A 5 And A 3 To Decompose Entirely, Anna Swanson, April White

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This poem is from “The Garbage Poems,” a series of poems from a forthcoming book of the same name in which poems are created using the text transcribed from garbage found at local swimming holes. The project is interested in themes of chronic illness, concussion, queerness, climate crisis, garbage, cultural constructions of "litter," swimming, embodiment, and joy. Using only words taken from source text found on garbage collected from beaches and lakes near Ameliasburgh, ON, this poem explores the timelines of human-created objects and power structures.

The Waking Glacier: A High Arctic Lyric (Excerpts), Dianne Chisholm

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These excerpts are drawn from “The Waking Glacier: A High Arctic Lyric,” a book-length series of lyrical passages that chronicle and reflect upon a tall-ship artist residency around Svalbard archipelago in Norway’s high Arctic.

Two Poems: Detour And Galway Famine Ship Memorial, Kelly Norah Drukker

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Kelly Norah Drukker offers two poems: "Detour" and “Galway Famine Ship Memorial.”

This Did Not Have To Happen, Moira Walker

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An elegiac poem on the cost to the planet and to all life on earth of the manufacture, use, and disposal of plastic products.

Found: Three Trashed Poems, Tanis Macdonald

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Three poems about garbage, what is leftover and found.

Video Poem: What Remains, Edie Steiner

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What Remainsis a three-minute poetry film I created to address the issue of “becoming-with” (Wright 2014). In the film, I document two large-scale, public-art spectacles I witnessed in Toronto, as historical markers of collective becoming-with. I contrast super-8mm film footage of the 1984 outdoor public performance “Shibola” at the Bell Trinity Square building in Toronto, by the Japanese Butoh dance group Sankai Juku, with digital video of “A Tribute to Toronto,” Judy Chicago’s 2022 Smoke Sculpture on the Toronto waterfront. I then intercut these images with digital recordings of ruins and relics, both ancient and modern, merging as …

Requiem For A Gull: Two Poems, Joanna Streetly

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A seabird’s death is mourned through “Requiem for a Gull” by Joanna Streetly, while "Dip & Skim" exlores the omnipresent nature of waste.

Fungi Moves, Night Crawler, Tree Futures, Petra Kuppers

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Three Gothic Eco-Poems by Petra Kuppers.

Tetrapod: Adapted For Locomotion Across Land, Amy Wang

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Poetry by Amy Wang.

Two Poems, Nicholas Bradley

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Poetry by Nicholas Bradley

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.

Bindweed, Leanne M.R. Charette

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Poetry by Leanne Charette.

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

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Poetry by Frances Boyle.

Inclement, Susan Wismer

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"Inclement," by Susan Wismer, is from Hageography:

Hagios, a Greek word for holy.

Hag, an old woman. Hag, an overhang at the edge of a cliff

Rough notes. Foot notes. Choreographies of happenstance.

Long Before Gps, Leanne Shirtliffe

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Poetry by Leanne Shirtlife.

Portal, Catherine M. Greenwood

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"Portal" is an ecoGothic poem from Siberian Spring.

Two Poems, David Martin

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Poetry by David Martin

Elms At Night And Outside The Museum (For George F. Ledingham), Ken Wilson

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Poetry by Ken Wilson

Two Poems From A Lichen Alphabet, Clare Goulet

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Poetry by Clare Goulet

It Is Not Enough, Allen Jorgenson

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Time Doesn’T Matter, Kelly Shepherd

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Poetry by Kelly Shepherd

La Voie De La Plume, Sylvie Kande, Aly Ndiaye

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Cette conversation entre Aly Ndiaye alias Webster, artiste hip-hop et conférencier sénégalo-québécois, et Sylvie Kandé, écrivaine franco-sénégalaise établie à New York, s’est déroulée par correspondance de septembre à octobre 2020. Ils ont aussi décidé de se lancer un défi d’écriture.

Immune Boost, Early Pandemic, Lisa Richter

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"Immune Boost, Early Pandemic" by Lisa Richter

The Birds Make Everything Okay, Marybeth Holleman

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"the birds make everything okay" is a poem about where we are now, in these changing yet still beautiful times.

Plastic Goes Concrete: "Plasticnic" And "Plasticpoems", Two Animated Poetry Videos About Plastic Pollution, Fiona Tinwei Lam, Nhat Truong, Tisha Deb Pillai

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The author describes the creation of two short animated video poems about plastic pollution that originated in concrete/visual poems. "Plasticnic" is a humorous and colourful narrated video based on a shaped poem depicting how we enjoy nature while simultaneously harming it through plastic consumption. "Plasticpoems" is a text-based, unnarrated animated video poem about plastic pollution based on two shaped/visual/concrete poems.

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.

Two Poems By Maureen Hynes, Maureen Hynes

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Poetry by Maureen Hynes.

Four Poems By Dale Tracy, Dale Tracy

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Poetry by Dale Tracy.

Pacific Oyster, Veronica Fibisan

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"Pacific Oyster" is part of a series titled Invaders, which focuses on non-native species of creatures and seaweeds which have taken over certain areas of the UK shoreline. The Pacific Oyster, Crassostrea gigas, has been dominating native oyster populations since it was introduced in the late 19th century as an alternative to the already declining native oyster population. Harvesting of the wild Pacific Oyster has been encouraged in order to keep numbers under control. There are ethical implications of such practices which create a rift between policy and morality, as foraging is carefully controlled in the UK, but perhaps …