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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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Marsha Barber

Marsha Barber is the author of two poetry books: What Is the Sound of Someone Unravelling (Borealis Press, 2011) and All the Lovely Broken People (Borealis Press, 2015). She has won several first-place awards from The Ontario Poetry Society and been shortlisted for the international Bridport Prize for poetry and longlisted for the national ReLit Award. Marsha’s work has been published in a wide range of periodicals including The Antigonish Review, The New Quarterly, The Walrus and The Prairie Journal.

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Marsha Barber

The Condolence Call

April 2015
  I cradle the phone gently. You are so far away.   Your grief surrounds you now like a moat full of dark water.   I cannot reach far enough to comfort you.   My words flit around, useless as flies. What, after all, can be said?   It’s a parent’s worst nightmare, you say.…