This excerpt from Roughing It in the Bush was used for the 2011 Geist Erasure Poetry Contest.

Shortest play ever published in Geist.

Any award that is done by com­mit­tee is sus­pect in one way or another.

The fleeting appearance of a familiar ghost haunts the pages of Jill Mandrake's story, loosely based on actual events.

What happens when you take a famous poem and run it through a series of European language translations and back to English?

From Red Nest, Gillian's first book of poetry and the winner of the ReLit Award for Poetry in 2010.

Jonathan Ball predicts your fate in 5, 7, 5.

Lennon/McCartney, as an entity, seemed to be the most cre­ative force ever unleashed upon the face of the earth. Of course, we even­tu­ally learned that Lennon/ McCartney didn’t really exist.

“You Never Looked So Simulating,” a poem presented at the In(ter)ventions conference in Banff, February 2010, and first published in West Coast LINE.

A list of words gleaned from Sarah Boxer’s favourite blogs, listed in “Blogs,” an essay by Sarah Boxer published in the New York Review of Books on February 14, 2008.

An owl researcher squares off with an over-protective bird named Granny.

We rank suffering and turn our disturbances into photographs — disturbances trapped behind glass.

What happens when a poet is inspired and the only thing on hand is a cocktail napkin?

A series of trading cards for collectors who want to change the world.

From Noise from the Laundry, published by Talonbooks in 2008.

Steven W. Beattie tells us how he really feels about Canadian literature.

Bicycles are common but not always what you’d call obvious.

Summer reading and some are not.

From Prairie Fire, Volume 29, No. 2 (Summer 2008).

You have been followed by a writer: a spy with a panicattack.

From If Language, a poetry collection published by BookThug in 2005. Each poem in the book is an anagram of an epigraph written by Steve McCaffery that contains 525 letters. Gregory Betts’ essay “Trench Poetry” appeared in Geist No. 54.

From Scrapbook of My Years As a Zealot, published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2008.