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Jim Johnstone

Jim Johnstone won a CBC Poetry Prize and has published four collections of verse.
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Poetry

The Outrage Industry

January 2, 2019July 9, 2020 - by Jim Johnstone

No, let me tell you that the more we talk, the more I’m convinced I’m right

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Illustrations by Hudson Christie
June 2016 / Poetry

As Conducted by Seiji Ozawa

May 19, 2016May 20, 2016 - by Jim Johnstone

Eight p.m. and an extended vowel sounds from the pit, instruments braying, sustaining the nasal pitch of the audience. When Massey Hall quiets, a spotlight sets beyond its seats, and …

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Illustration by Brian Morgan
December 2013 / Poetry

Dog Ear

November 29, 2013June 14, 2016 - by Jim Johnstone

It was years before I learned to call this prayer: the right-hand corner of a page turned down to make another page. I attempted to escape, then return to the …

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