Canadian poetry
Poet Steven Heighton on Writing, Making Music, and Literally Losing His Voice
The author of nineteen books explains why success won’t make you happy
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Something Else
your urn was / exactly as you’d wanted
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I’ve Had a Good Life. I’ve Been Water-Skiing
Was all of this enough? / I won a game, I won a game again
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Today My Task Is the Codicil
I’ve had my pomegranate life. / Seeds sluicing red . . . Rose affection
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The Influence of Dub Poet Lillian Allen Runs Deep
How a poet once relegated to the fringes helped fashion a new narrative of who a Canadian artist could be
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We Knew What Was Coming
We knew what was / Coming—the outburst / Of green
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