11TH ANNUAL POEM OF THE YEAR CONTEST WINNERS

Bren Simmers

Out Walking

Michael Reynolds

Castor Gulo (poem of a beaver becoming a wolverine)

Heidi Garnett

Water Rituals

HONOURABLE MENTIONS

Barbara Myers

Ice Fog

James Scoles

a particular gospel

Pamela Porter

To Will One Thing

EDITORS’ CHOICES

P.R. Barr

Live Trap

Lisa Comeau

Road Repair

Sean Horlor

St. Brendan and the Isle of Sheep

Alison Pick

Robin

Marilyn Gear Pilling

At the Corner of James North and Vine

Kristin Sumner

Youse I Loves

Ria Voros

Distance

Stephanie Bolster

Rainbow

DIANA BREBNER PRIZE

Rhonda Douglas

Hecuba

Sandra Ridley

Five Discretions Of Water

POETRY

Di Brandt

Nine River Ghazals

Erin Knight

Teosinte

Evelyn Lau

Rings

Sharon McCartney

Raccoon Up a Tree
Dorothy

Suzanne Hancock

Bells

Mark Frutkin

Two Prose Poems on Italian Piazzas

Steve McOrmond

The End of the World
Test Pattern

Tomaz Salamun

Alojz Wagner
Theseus Vomits Blood

Joshua Trotter

Winter in the Kingdom of Windows

Brady Rhoades

40
Weyman Chan:
for Uncle Dong Fei who just keeps going

Susie Bowers

Inheritance

Ian Roy

Rats
The Moth

Caleb JW Brasset

D.H. Lawrence
Alexandra Pasian
The Arrival of Spring
Walking with William

Sue Wheeler

Long Marriage

Clea Young

Granville Island: Public Market

INTERVIEW

Tanis MacDonald

Reparative Strategies: An Interview with Di Brandt

ESSAY

Terry Ann Carter

Red Lights and Chartreuse Fronds: The Tanka Poetry of Marianne Bluger

VISUAL ART

Marie-Jeanne Musiol

Mirrors of the Cosmos

FEATURE REVIEWS

Triny Finlay

Back to the Modern: Three Ottawa Poets
2005 Archibald Lampman winner and honourable mentions

John Lofranco

Middle-of-the-road-Margie Music
The New Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry

Katia Grubisic

From Acrostic to Z…onnet
In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry

Richard Stevenson

Potboiler Poetry
Sooner, by Margaret Christakos

Brief reviews on Abley, Babstock, Coles, Conn, Currin, Hartog, Kennedy and Wershler-Henry, Klassen, Levenson and Cameron (eds), Page, Safarik

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