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Referendum Trudeau

He campaigned in poetry but governed in prose

Jeff Costen

Rinkside Reading

What does hockey’s literature say about the sport?

Naoko Asano

Alarm Bells

Fort McMurray and fires hence

Bob Armstrong
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Catherine Owen

Catherine Owen is the author of nine collections of poetry, the most recent being Trobairitz (Anvil Press, 2012) and the chapbook Steve Kulash & Other Autopsies (Angel House Press, 2012). Her collection of memoirs and essays, Catalysts: Confrontations with the Muse, was published by Wolsak and Wynn in 2012. Frenzy won the Alberta Book Prize. Owen edits, tutors, plays bass in Medea & the allgirl AC/DC tribute band Who Maid Who, and composes with the Lyrical Outlaws.

Articles by
Catherine Owen

Obsessive Compulsive Vista with Tragedy

June 2013
  I will not write about him today There is river after all & sky Of his loss, there is nothing more to say At the estuary’s mouth, a shielded bay Where swallows slip when the rocks are dry No, I will not write about him today The sand kin to stone, at its softest, clay Waves now a…

Sonnet beginning & ending with a line from Merwin

January–February 2013
  I think always of you waiting Though why this should be I don’t know The strange vague esteem of the living Imagining the dead have nothing more to do   Than hunger after their time on earth — The kisses, the rifts, those indifferences, those whims — All the range that once was feeling’s surfeit…