Canada is big and bold
it's French and English
Inuit and Eskimo
Baffin island and Hudson Bay
Labrador and Quebec
Nova Scotia and Cape Breton
Toronto and Montreal
the St Lawrence river
Leonard Cohen Captain Kirk
Joni Mitchell Neil Young
The Crash Test Dummies
the Mounties and the huskies
Vancouver and Victoria
the other side of the Rockies
where all your friends
are Chinese.
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
In the Whirlwind is a poetic storm that frees history from the cages of corruption and puts it in the hands of everyday people. Words are weaved into a new fashion statement that has nothing to do with runways but everything to do with projects!
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