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Editor - Diane Dawber
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| INTRODUCTION For many years, I have wanted a venue for hearing the work of my many local colleagues. We had the usual idiosyncratic readings of book launches and touring poets, but that did not seem to satisfy me. I wanted to hear poems read by poets on a regular basis, something to look forward to every month. I wanted poetry and I wanted company. I also wanted the chance to try out a new poem myself without all the stress and paperwork of doing a full reading or waiting the years it takes to finish a book. I also wanted a poetry event that would move quickly and allow for audience participation. So many times I’ve wanted to respond to a poem right then and there before the thought could sink into oblivion. I wanted the poet to hear that this or that line impressed, that the poem echoed an experience of my own or related to another poem or book I had read. It’s not much fun reading to a bunch of unresponsive chairs. There are not very many places where you can go to hear people making an effort to say the unsayable, to lay out the perceived, but unexplained, for us. Poets are sensitive people. Their antennae are attuned to the anomalies. It is important to give poets a chance to speak up and speak out. So often the poet, the writer in general, is an ‘outsider’ in some way with the outsider’s novel perception of what habit has dulled for the rest of us. Poetry can shake the kaleidoscope and reveal new patterns. Poetry & Company is not just an open-mike opportunity. Each poet reads just one poem. After each poem, we pause to talk to the poet about our response. At the end of the evening, a flier for the next Poetry & Company is available for posting and an email report is sent out to everyone we have found in our poetry community, listing titles of poems and names of the poets as well as announcements of upcoming poetry events including the next Poetry & Company. All the elements - the one-poem rule, the audience response time, the flier, the email report, the building of a poetry distribution list - are important in developing the sense of poetic community. Thank you to David Peach and Coffee and Company for allowing us to use their excellent space every month. Many of the poems here have been read at one of the monthly Poetry & Company events. Thank you to all of the poets who have donated their work to this anthology. As you read, imagine yourself with a hot cup of whatever at hand, poetry aficionados around you. Go one better and join us at the next Poetry & Company or .... start your own. It’s a new anthology, a new community, every night. Diane Dawber Contents – This Daughter and I (or Versions and Dubs) – Lillian Allen – p.1 – A Winter House – Yi-Mei Tsiang – p.2 – The Patchwork Poem - Leah Browning – p.3 – Mummum – Yi-Mei Tsiang – p.4 – Shadows on the Road – Erin Foley – p.5 – Natural Desires – Tara Kainer – p.7 – On A Winter Morning in Minnesota, I Drink Tea and Think of Sarah – Leah Browning – p.9 – Akita – Doug Milligan – p.10 – The Pavement is Defunct – Ted Christou – p.11 – Twenty-fifth Anniversary – Ian Burgham – p. 13 – On Wolfe Island – David Pratt – p.14 – The Lost Road – Eric Folsom – p.15 – Kite Flying – Cori Mayhew – p.16 – Skeleton Park – Mary Ellen Csamer – p.17 – A Description of an Approaching Hurricane in Canada – Gabrielle McIntire – p.18 – Stacking Wood – Elizabeth Greene – p.20 – Exaltations – Leann Cunningham – p.21 – Words of a Wise Woman – Judith Cleland – p.22 – Little Boy Scuff Shoe – John Pigeau – p.24 – The Relevance of Supernovas – Ben Sheedy – p.26 – Lyrics for a Lover – Gregory Ridge – p.28 – Again, Beautiful – Erin Foley – p.29 – The Tide Came In – Cam McLellan – p.30 – Lately the Poetic Themes – Rose DeShaw – p.32 – The Ex-Wife – Farren Gainer – p.33 – Paint Test Strips – Diane Dawber – p.34 – That Outlaw Ride – Michael MacWhirter – p.35 – Standing on the Corner of Princess Street – Christopher Dawber – p.38 – Across the Road – Diane Dawber – p.40 – Hugh’s Blues – Wayne Smith – p.42 – Poetry is Dangerous – Dick DeShaw – p.44 – Talking to Christ – Jennifer Londry – p.46 – Quarter for the Phone – Rose DeShaw – p.47 – Creep: An Urban Legend – Hollay Ghadery – p.48 – The Guardians of Barrie Street – Hollay Ghadery – p.49 – Night Song – Bruce Kauffman – p.50 – Electronic Junkie – Bonita Summers – p.53 – “James Hillman’s Acorn’’ – Michael Hurley – p.55 – Canticle of the Whales – Nathalie Sorensen – p.59 – Mercury – Carolyn Smart – p.60 – Kiholo Bay Hawai’i – Joanne Page – p.61 – Crow – P. Sri – p.62 – Trees Do Not Exist – Dick DeShaw – p.64 – Shaking – Eric Folsom – p.66 – Kingston’s Silent Vigil - Peggy Flanagan – p.67 – Tool Shed – R.D. Roy – p.68 – This body belongs to ... – Laurie Lewis – p.69 – On the Road to Westport – Laurie Lewis – p.71 – Blue Roof Farm – Elizabeth Greene – p.72 – Two Haiku and a Tanka – Philomene Kocher – p.73 – Disappearances – Louise O’Donnell – p.74 – For the Family – Liz Williams–Kelly – p.75 – No Lamp Can Brighten – Steven Heighton – p.76 – Three Minutes – Margaretann Gorham – p.77 – A Winter Aesthetic – Rebecca Luce-Kapler – p.78 – Identity Papers – Lorne Shirinian – p.79 – Remembrance Service, Kingston Airport, 2005 – Ian Burgham – p.80 – Duties include but are not limited to – Jan Allen – p.81 – All that she did not do – Carolyn Smart – p.82 – Inuksuk – Gabrielle Santyr – p.84 – Dream as Stage Play - Poem accompanying cover art by Christopher Dawber – p.85 |