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Gerald Stern

...June, 2005. Leslie, David and Roo kept a lively blog of the trip, which you can read here. American Sonnets 2003 Shortlist W. W. Norton & Company, USA Purchase Judges’ Citation...

Margaret Avison

...I feel, look, solid; am though leaky firm. Yet I am composed largely of water. How the composer turned us out this way, even the learned few do not explain....

Louis Simpson

...the Room We Share (1990); Collected Poems (1988); People Live Here: Selected Poems 1949-83 (1983); The Best Hour of the Night (1983); Caviare at the Funeral (1980); Armidale (1979); Searching...

Leslie Greentree

...and competed in the National Face-off. ‘Fargo’s, Whyte Avenue’, a poem from go-go dancing for Elvis, was selected for inclusion in Writing Alberta: An Anthology by Dr. Robert Stamp (U of C Press)....

John Burnside

Poet and novelist John Burnside was born in 1955 in Dunfermline, Scotland. A former computer systems engineer, he has been a freelance writer since 1996; he has also worked as a gardener...

Michael Redhill

...Prize in 2006 for the best play at the Edinburgh Fringe and has since played in New York, Vancouver, and Girona, and will open later in 2008 in Barcelona and...

Roo Borson

...The poems, expressed in commonplaces, were not fine art, but they were communication. They were the sort of poems that say what they mean. Amazingly, almost superstitiously, people still fall...

Michael Palmer

...ever opens out to the surprising generosity of a kind of equivocation. How listen, where dwell?’, asks Michael Palmer in a book whose continuous questioning only ever opens out to...