This anthology is a special theme issue connecting water and earth, two of the basic elements of life on our planet. The poets represented in this issue reflect a profound reverence for the natural world.
Spring Eternal
buds line brittle branches
stretching upward
past fog and endless rainy days
the cold days of winter
with mountains white
and terperatures to match
defy spring's equinox
a few brave souls stand with hunched shoulders
defiant in their paisley shorts and parkas
steadfast in their belief that
the world is round
all the while the rest of us
watch for the precipice ahead
the shimmering curtain of green
a temptation just beyond the pale rider
falling, falling into what we hope
will be spring
eternal
From First Love to its destructive end and on to new beginnings, Mary Angela Nangini's poems explore the birth and death of a relationship. The powerful poems are presented in two parts with an introduction to her next book My Ontario Beautiful. (Th
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,
Using Calgary as a backdrop the author satirizes the self-serving nature of the public as it continues to fatten itself, not only physically, but egotistically as well.
