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mother’s tongue

mother’s tongue

Our 2017 Poetry Contest Honourable Mention. mother's tongue They often ask: Will you teach your children your language?             As if it is a weapon I carry. Of course I will, ensure they are more fluent than I was. Hope that they can read and write it too....

Shaughnessy

Shaughnessy

The eviction notice came in the middle of a long winter, on one of those afternoons when M just couldn’t warm up, no matter how many sweaters and blankets she piled on her shoulders. The eviction notice came in the middle of a long winter, on one of those afternoons...

Paper Teeth

Paper Teeth

With unique humour and style, Paper Teeth introduces us to a fresh voice in Canadian short fiction. Paper Teeth by Lauralyn Chow, NeWest Press, 178 pages, $19.95, 2016 Alberta writer Lauralyn Chow opens her debut short story collection Paper Teeth with a description...

Work & Days

Work & Days

In Work & Days, Taylor casts the physical attributes of the ecological world in a deeply poetic light. Tess Taylor’s Work & Days performs a moral, political, material, spiritual environmentalism. This calendric cycle of twenty-eight poems studies the...

My Body is Somebody

My Body is Somebody

—not part of me. She makes up games like Quidditch and plays with me. Body throws me down —not part of me. She makes up games like Quidditch and plays with me. Body throws me down on the playground and laughs with them who laugh at me. My body is a gaping hole that...

Nipiy

Nipiy

If our gratitude dries parched, we think nothing of        water If our tongues shrink, we  think of nothing       but water nothing of water; foresight        shortened dry, memory of                           these -dry -days Water, is taught by thirst. Land — by...

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