POETRY
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October 1869: to smoke their pipes and sing their songs
"lug like trunks,/ steer like plows/ pile like lumber..." more
Harm Reduction
"It’s 6 a.m. when the lights turn on / in a white-washed drugstore, / as if it were a little theatre / shining out onto the sidewalk." more
1827 Sul Ross #1
"Had hardwoods and crown moulding / I thought I could afford. I signed the lease, / sick of driving everything I owned" more
Stanza Is The Italian Word for Room
"On benedick’s retirement, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the catholic church" more
Failed Seances for Rita MacNeil
"Rita, we are both members / of the fat neo-Scottish diaspora. / Don’t tell me it doesn’t exist, sweet darlin’" more
Festivities
"anything you wanted to keep had to be taken off your balcony / then on that day, Balcony Day / whatever items were still left out there disappeared" more
Death of a Fisherman
"he’s rowing with bed rails on sheets / sail-taut where the sea should be." more
Canadian Tourister
"Canada has no history books, they are being written as we speak by navvies and temporary foreign workers, by strippers and hitchhikers." more
Hinterland Who’s Who
Listen to C.R. Gilpin read "The Pump Jack," "The Tall Poppy" and "The NFB Documentary." more
The Waking Comes Late
"Of course, looking back, you would like to reboot and start over, but there is no over." An excerpt from The Waking Comes Late, winner of the 2016 Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry. more
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