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Referendum Trudeau

He campaigned in poetry but governed in prose

Rinkside Reading

What does hockey’s literature say about the sport?

Alarm Bells

Fort McMurray and fires hence

Richard Therrien

Richard Therrien has published broadly across North America, from journalism to non-fiction, fiction and poetry. His poetry has been published in various periodicals such as Grain, The New Quarterly and Prairie Fire. He is co-author, with Dean Neu, of Accounting for Genocide, Canada’s Bureaucratic Assault on Aboriginal People (Fernwood Publishing/Zed Books, 2003). Sleeping in Tall Grass, due in the spring of 2016 from University of Alberta Press, is his first collection of poetry.

Articles by
Richard Therrien

  Dawn      begs earth to stay Through vowel spirit enters in consonant the soul river’s primal speakers bind breath to flesh to bone.   Grey brittle stars the small cloven hooves of morning.   Between the lifting of the eyelid and the glance a speck of dust descending arising.   Meister Eckhart says The creator has no