The Great Poetry Giveaway

The Book of Kells Great Poetry Giveaway 2011 is underway. If you want to receive the poetry at any of the participating blogs, leave a comment at the blog offering the lottery on the book of your choice, before April 30th. Such as at this one.

I’ll mail off a copy of Between Stations for one of my spread-poetry-goodness books. A sample poem:

double-ended damn
i around a bend the truck sees the train, slows
no point in pushing
a dust plume to quick stop
ii
mid-cornfield a pump house
in red brick imitation tar paper
iii
from outside this tube
a wink of parallax moves us
what fixes us?
what’s on the verge
dizzies.
stare at the far.
the train whistle gets caught in you

For the other book, Never More There by Stephen Rowe of Newfoundland (Nightwood Editions, 2009) which include haibun. p. 25

Nearing fifty your legs weakened. You found it hard to get about or work; had to go on welfare. Chores turned to torture and a man from the harbour cut wood for the family. Dad said you walked on your hands once just to show you still could. He was young then. In his fifties his legs weakened too: he’d walk to the water tank, a hundred feet to the rail that overlooked the bank, every step burning a memory of you in the doorway watching someone else pile logs
by the shed
an axe on the cutting block
fists tight
Now at twenty-five my knees give me trouble.

The initial list of participants is here.
As a blogger giving away two books, today is the last day to participate. One can be your own and the other one that you think someone should read. In the first couple days of May, the winners will be contacted. The winner may have their name pulled out of a hat, or you can use the random number generator and then count down the comments until you get to the winner.
[news of idea via Jim]
Unrelatedly, Giving a Book Reading [via The Onion]