10TH ANNUAL POEM OF THE YEAR CONTEST WINNERS

Sandra Kasturi

Old Men, Smoking

Irene Livingston

Open My Drawers

Karen Hofmann

Cock Pheasant

HONOURABLE MENTIONS

Rosemary Clewes

Arctic Hare

Pamela Porter

Iglesia Bautista Sao Joao, Luanda, Angola

Diane Reid

How To Eat a Mango

EDITORS’ CHOICES

Suzanne Hancock

The Square Dinner Plate Your Aunt Gave Us Slips From My Soapy Hands

Carolyn Norberg

If I Could Buy a Lobster For No Reason

Diane Reid

Pope’s Nose: An Apology

Mel Simoneau

Before He Took the Scythe to the Hay

Hilary Smith

Travels

Kathryn Young

The Birth of Epic

DIANA BREBNER PRIZE

Sylvia Adams

Water

Dilys Leman

Motherless

POETRY

Erín Moure

Four Cantigas

George Elliott Clarke

Wintering
À Geeta

Christopher Doda

Because It’s There

Michelle D. Smith

ile de la cité / city of light

Peter Christie

Love Lives Among the Galÿpagos
The Threat of Wolves

Julie Roorda

Everything I regret persists in the form of a small animal

Anna Swanson

Russian doll

Erina Harris

suite vi   Pickpocket, he

Dani Couture

against the seasons

Sarah B. Wiseman

Building Shelves

Phillip Crymble

Answers to Seamus

Jason Guriel

Accidental Poetry Written by My Father
Envy for an Imposter

Eleonore Schönmaier

Long Cove

Julia McCarthy

In the Absence of Narrative

Deirdre Dwyer

The Border Guard Talks to Lao-tzu

Maureen McCarthy

We’ll Shape
Lucky

Caleb J W Brasset

rooms
the new world

ARTICLES

How Poems Work

John Barton on Sandra Kasturi’s “Old Men, Smoking”

Erín Morin

An Excerpt from O Cadoiro

VISUAL ARTS

carballo-farman

Visitations

FEATURE REVIEWS

John Lennox

“The human guy inside”: Yours, Al: The Collected Letters of Al Purdy

Critics at large

Shane Neilson on Carmine Starnino’s A Lover’s Quarrel
and Peter Sanger’s White Salt Mountain

Brief Reviews on Ala, Brewster, Brockwell, Buffam, Livingstone Clarke, Connolly, Davey, Dragland, Greene, Laird, mclennan, Moure, Norman, Quartermain, Schmidt, Simic, Solway, Vermeersch, Walmsley, Welch, Zwicky

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