Category: writing
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[a lake is there]
When I’d go out exploring in the bush as a kid I’d often be looking as far ahead as I could, trying to see places where the outline of trees thinned against the sky. I knew this meant that there could be a lake or some sort of clearing there and I felt compelled to…
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[haiku aesthetics]
I recently acquired a second-hand copy of dust devils: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku (Red Moon Press, 2017), from Carson Books in Vancouver. An essay included in the anthology, by Susan Antolin, entitled “Haiku Aesthetics: A Look at Understatement,” caught my attention. In the essay she quotes Eliot and Williams. Antolin makes the…
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Poetry Bashed
Last night, I was in attendance for the Vancouver Writer’s Fest Poetry Bash at Performance Works on Granville Island. It was a great evening filled with the readings from a talented and highly decorated six-poet panel. Starting the evening’s reads was Victoria, BC poet Kayla Czaga (currently my crackerjack mentor at SFU The Writer’s Studio).…
Michael Edwards 