EDITOR’S NOTE

14TH ANNUAL POEM OF THE YEAR CONTEST

First Prize: Patricia Young

The Night of the Apocalypse Yahweh Tinkles the Ivories [read]

Second Prize: Susan Buis

In alabastrine (Edith Lake)

Third Prize: E. Alex Pierce

Common Loons

READERS’ CHOICE:

Jim Johnstone

Canadian Gothic [read]

EDITORS’ CHOICES

Shelley A. Leedahl

First Walk to Mojácar Pueblo

Karina Meléndez

This Sound

Jakub Stachurski

Event Horizon

Sheryda Warrener

At the Steel Pier

DIANA BREBNER PRIZE

Winner: Gillian Wallace

Crow, of the family Corvidae [read]

Honorable Mention: Jacqueline Kawaja

The Speed Limit of Angiogenesis

POETRY

Anne Compton

Heat in April
Rain, Summer
The garden near the river, February

Daryl Hine

& 115
& 117

Susan Stenson

No Deer Yet to Collapse the Last Seeds on the Honey Bush

Susan Brennan

from numinous

Ken Victor

Travels

John Barton

Sissies Need Not Apply
Le Ruban Dénoué: Hommage à Reynaldo Hahn

Shane Neilson

In the Ultrasound Room
Love Poem for the Doctor’s Wife

Nikolijne Troubetzkoy

How They Met

Correy Baldwin

mrs dorothy bruce

Ian Williams

All night a woman prays for girls she does not know by name

Jessica Parkinson

Intimation

Allan Cooper

The Stag’s Head
The Toad
A Porcupine

Mathew Martin

Credit Card Statement

ryan fitzpatrick

‘I Don’t Like The Look Of Them’
‘I Don’t Think It’s Fair’
‘I Don’t Think That Way’

Sean Howard

library cards
poetic extracts: study #4

Steve McOrmond

Advisory [read]
When It Comes For You
Directions to the Ark

ESSAYS

Barbara Myers

On ending a poem [read excerpt]

Zachariah Wells

Correspondences everywhere: On Robyn Sarah’s “Echoes in November”

VISUAL ART

Works by Nicolas Ruel

FEATURE REVIEWS

James Pollock

Karen Solie’s triple vision

Chris Jennings

Fidelities: Carmine Starnino’s This Way Out [read excerpt]

Emily Carr

What Can Poetry Do?: On Dionne Brand and Nicole Brossard

Brief reviews on Avasilichioaei, Bringhurst, Clifford, Crate, Graham, Grünzweig,
Mac, Malla, Peacock, Poile, Porco, Ross, Scofield, Smart, Tierney [read], Whipple

Mailbag
Books Received
Acknowledgments and Errata
Contributors
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