12TH ANNUAL POEM OF THE YEAR CONTEST WINNERS

Susan Elmslie

Box

Degan Davis

Winter

Aurian Haller

from “Seamless”

HONOURABLE MENTIONS

E. Alex Pierce

To float, to drown, to close up, to open—a throat

Jamella Hagen

Fieldmice

Lorri Neilsen Glenn

Sunday Morning

EDITORS’ CHOICES

Marlene Cookshaw

Heaven (Oregon, 1993)

Rhonda Douglas

Dinner With the Pratts

Amy Evans

I Sharpen the Knives

Jeffrey Hsu

Family Tree Haiku

Lisa Martin-DeMoor

Map for the Road Home

Peter Norman

Up Near Wawa

DIANA BREBNER PRIZE

Guy Simser

Withdrawal

LM Rochefort

(W)hole

POETRY

Jay Ruzesky

While You Were Out

Matthew Tierney

Love Triangle
The Rocket Scientist

Jeramy Dodds

The Gift
The Water

Michael deBeyer

Poem for Holly

April Bulmer

Night Birds

Erin Noteboom

Perched in an oak, a crow
Procession of the Equinoxes
deep calleth deep at the sound of they waterfalls
     thy waves and thy breakers have gone over me

Tim Lilburn

Thickness, Travelling
Orphic Hymn

Linda Besner

After the Operation
Cartwheel
Zelivskeho

Michael Blouin

when he was young
their search for happiness eventually led them here
I am Bound for the Promised Land
man (in black)
in May 1975

Sue Sinclair

Pawal Laughing on the Beach
In the Long Afternoons

Margaret Avison

Death

VISUAL ART

Works by Gerald Vaandering

FEATURE REVIEWS

Carmine Starnino

Knock, Knock: Is the real Atwood still there?
The Door, Margaret Atwood

Katia Grubisic

Moritz’s Other Cheek
Now That You Revive, A.F. Moritz
Editing Mortiz, A.F. Moritz and Shane Neilson

Abou Farman

Poetry of Inquiry
The Rush to Here, George Murray
Ox, Christopher Patten

Brief reviews on Birney, bissett, Black, Dickinson, Domanski, Harris, Lee, Moure, Owen, Porter, Ross, Sutherland, Weber, Winger

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