Richard Greene
Richard Greene has published three books of poetry of which the most recent, Boxing the Compass (Signal Editions, 2009), won the Governor General’s Literary Award in 2010. A new collection of his work, Dante’s House, including a long poem in terza rima, will be published in the coming year by Signal Editions.
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Richard Greene
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March 2013
First thing in a new day, an inmate’s cheek
gauzed over a stitched hole. “I was too long
on the phone, so he smashed my head on the wall
and I bit his lip in self-defence. Then he bit
me — you can see it under the bandage.”
And a piece of cleverness: a new kind of shank
discovered when they turned out a…