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There are places in the world where a woman alone on a street experiences rape just because she is alone on a street. Like a dropped bill or coin, belonging to no-one, free to be…
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Pasolini on the way to Haifa
The number 7 bus drops me off in the hood, next to a low stone wall I see Amos and can’t believe he is still alive. His white eyes scored with bloody capillaries,…
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The Interior Life
What if the mind doesn’t like to be followed all the time. Every morning, the pen noting it went here, it went there. Maybe it’s tired of the hand, that paparazzo in…
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Everything Must Go
As if a gust of wind had me by the throat I began throwing things out – last week’s news I might yet read, and this week’s – into the bin, papers I might yet need—a…
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Death of the King and Other Poems
If you want to know what it feels like to be a child of survivors, read this slim and vital poetry collection. Holocaust literature rarely features the trauma reverberating in the…
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Dream the Living into Speech: A Selection of Poems and a Homage to Yiddish
Seymour Mayne has been teaching at the University of Ottawa since 1973 where he is a Professor of Canadian Literature, Creative Writing, and Canadian Studies. A four-time winner of…
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If Found
On Aspects of Judaism by Salis Daiches, 1928, found by his great-granddaughter in a Wigtown bookshop, September 2012 December nineteen forty-four, the world blind…
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Persephone Elopes & Demeter In November
Persephone Elopes
Watch her steps
On any ancient frieze:
He’s a terrorist; she’s his
Mission: the country he’ll kill
For. He says he’ll blow apart
Her home if she…
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Exile
I am a poet exiled to fields of colour,
seed words in the furrow of the brush sprout rhymed lines upon soft canvases
fertilise them with pigments,
make pictures grow.
I am a…
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