Simplicity versus Troubled Sense in Poems

Julian Gough talks on Clive James’ books, particularly the departures of the second book, from a year ago. It is an interesting entry point and introduction. (I seem to find essays and discussion around aims more interesting than anyone’s poems these days, such as this, and James’ reflections on listening for the flavour.) Gough quotes […]

Links

Tightrope Books has made a Best Canadian Essays 2009. They keep making interesting choices those folks. I’ll have to get my hands on that sometime for at least a flip thru. I did find Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion. Now that looks interesting. I don’t know what kind of funding allows over […]

fw: simply haiku

it will be missed even if it stays online. After seven years of publication with the dedicated services of volunteer editors and webmasters, and with contributors from all over the world, Simply Haiku is regretfully shutting its electronic doors. However, the archives of Simply Haiku will remain online and the search engine will continue to […]

Lighthouse

lighthouse mom scrapes off punky-soft lower half of clapboards down to the tar paper and strappings. she stands in bleached-plumed sunhat on bamboo scaffoldings, leaning, white-paints the upper half of the still intact boards. paint tracks down the underbody of the building. funny, the sense dreams make until waking fully. funny, the sense dreams make […]