In fine form : the Canadian book of form poetry / edited by Kate Braid and Sandy Shreve.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Braid, Kate.

Shreve, Sandy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry.

Literary form.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

303 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : Polestar, 2005.

Summary:

The past few years have seen a quiet revolution in Canadian poetry. Poets experimenting with "form" - with sonnets and ghazals, triolets and ballads, epigrams and blues - have been slipping these verses into their books alongside free verse. But dig deeper and it turns out that Canadian poets have a fascinating history of writing in form - from famous early practitioners such as Charles G.D. Roberts, Robert Service and Bliss Carman to recent Griffin Prize winner Ann Simpson and bestseller Christian Bok. Not to speak of Margaret Atwood, Irving Layton, Leonard Cohen, Alden Nowlan, George Elliott Clarke, P.K. Page, Lorna Crozier, Stephanie Bolster, Michael Redhill...and the list goes on.

This exciting, comprehensive and groundbreaking anthology explores Canadian form poetry from the sixteenth century to the present day. The result is a thrilling collection of more than 40 forms and 175 poems that will appeal to every poet and reader, as well as teachers and students. The book is arranged by sections, one for each form, with a brief introduction to that form's conventions and variations. An extended essay explores common poetic terms and technical devices. Fascinating, surprising and exhilarating, here is a showcase for some of the best poetry this country has produced.

Contents:

Ballad 21

The Contract Mucker / Wilson H. Thomson 23

Back on the Job / John G. Fisher 24

Buie Annajohn / Bliss Carman 25

The Cremation of Sam McGee / Robert Service 27

The Grey Rider / Norah M. Holland 30

The Lee-Shore / E.J. Pratt 31

1838 / Dennis Lee 32

The Ballad of Echolocation / Ryan Knighton 34

Blues 36

Conjured / R. Nathaniel Dett 38

Metric Blues / F. R. Scott 39

Who / Frederick Ward 41

Self-Sufficient Blues / Maureen Hynes 42

The Diet / Bruce Meyer 43

King Bee Blues / George Elliott Clarke 44

blues / Christine Wiesenthal 45

Jump Rope Rhyme of the 49er Daughters / Wayde Compton 46

Alley Blues / Wayde Compton 47

Couplet 49

The Skater / Sir Charles G. D. Roberts 51

Bach Fugue / Barker Fairley 52

Egg-and-Dart / Robert Finch 53

The Third Eye / Jay MacPherson 54

April Elegy (Sam Selvon d. 1994) / Christopher Wiseman 54

James Clarence Mangan in Trinity College Library / Timothy Brownlow 56

Jaham Sings of the Fear of the Moon / Eric Ormsby 58

The Fall / Daniel David Moses 59

Epigram 60

from Quodlibets / Robert Hayman 61

Bugs / Anon 62

Brebeuf and his Brethren / F. R. Scott 63

from Four Epigrams / Robert Finch 63

News of the Phoenix / A. J. M. Smith 64

Going to Sleep / Dorothy Livesay 64

Very Short Poem / Raymond Souster 65

Tourist Stricken at the Uffizi / Richard Outram 65

Aunt Jane / Alden Nowlan 66

[you fit into me] / Margaret Atwood 66

from Winter Epigrams / Dionne Brand 67

Fugue and Madrigal 68

The Praying-Mantis / Annie Charlotte Dalton 71

The Ballad of the Pink-Brown Fence / Milton Acorn 72

The Children Are Laughing / Gwendolyn Macewen 73

And the Season Advances / Hermenegilde Chiasson 74

Fugue / Robyn Sarah 75

Night Piece / Robin Skelton 76

Madrigal, a Lullaby for Xan / Marilyn Bowering 77

Ghazal 78

from Sunday Water / Phyllis Webb 81

Ghazal V / Kuldip Gill 81

IX from Stilt Jack / John Thompson 82

from A Linen Crow, A Caftan Magpie / Patrick Lane 83

Of Night / Molly Peacock 84

Excellence in the small. Tears frozen on your face / Lorna Crozier 85

Tonight the Sky Is My Begging Bowl / Sina Queyras 85

Landscapes and home/Ghazal 22 / Yvonne Blomer 86

Glosa 88

Planet Earth / P. K. Page 90

The Garden Temple / Patrick Lane 92

O Grandfather Dust / Glenn Kletke 93

Last Days / Betsy Struthers 96

Revelation / Aaron Pope, Jodi A. Shaw 98

What do you want? / Brenda Leifso 99

Norgberto Hernandez - Photographed Falling September Eleventh / David Reibetanz 101

Haiku and Other Japanese Forms 103

from Spring / Winona Baker 106

Tanka / Henry Beissel 106

Father/Mother Haibun #5 / Fred Wah 107

Shouting Your Name Down the Well / David W. Mcfadden 108

Leafsmoke / Marianne Bluger 109

from Hortus Urbanus/Urban Garden / Colin Morton 111

Shuffles / Brian Bartlett 112

Hymn for Portia White / George Elliott Clarke 113

Haiku Monument for Washington, D.C. / Michael Redhill 114

leavetaking / Rita Wong 115

Incantation 116

from Magic Words / AUA 118

Autochthon / Sir Charles G. D. Roberts 118

Twelve O'Clock Chant / Leonard Cohen 120

My Beloved is Dead in Vietnam / Thuong Vuong-Riddick 121

Nightspell / Jon Furberg 122

Bidding Spell / Penn Kemp 123

Turnips Are / BP Nichol 125

Widow's Winter / Marilyn Bowering 126

Life, Having Become Still / Brenda Brooks 126

Spell for a Daughter / Theresa Kishkan 127

Morenz / Tim Bowling 128

His Flute, My Ears / Gregory Scofield 128

Palindrome 130

Loop / Fiona Tinwei Lam 132

Mobius Strip / Anne Simpson 134

The Back Seat of My Mother's Car / Julia Copus 144

Dance / Sandy Shreve 145

The Shoreline / Joe Denham 146

ATM / Elizabeth Bachinsky 148

Pantoum 149

Labour Pantoum / Kirsten Emmott 151

The Dirty Thirties / Lorna Crozier 153

Empty Chairs / Maxianne Berger 154

In the Spring of No Letters / Marlene Cookshaw 155

Lines in the Sand / Richard Sanger 156

Lucy, Lucie / Peter Garner 157

Forecast: Nadja / Susan Elmslie 158

Post-War Procession / Anita Lahey 161

Rondeau Family 163

In Flanders Fields / John Mccrae 166

Roundel to my Pipe / Emile Nelligan 167

Song for Naomi / Irving Layton 168

Rondeau Redouble / Margaret Avison 169

On A Kazoo / Dennis Lee 170

from Three Small Rooms / Colin Morton 172

from Autobiography / Marilyn Bowering 173

Down / Mark Abley 174

Sestina 175

The Edge / Fred Cogswell 177

Sestina on a Train / Al Purdy 178

The Beauty of Job's Daughters / Jay Macpherson 180

Ritual / Sue Chenette 181

In Juarez / Sue Wheeler 183

The Lovers' Sestina / Bruce Meyer 184

Sestina of the Geographic Tongue / Rachel Rose 186

Sonnet 188

The King's Sabbath / Archibald Lampman 191

Sonnet / Kenneth Leslie 192

Cathleen Sweeping / George Johnston 193

Tennis / Margaret Avison 194

Acoustics / W. H. New 195

An Era of Easy Meat at Locarno / George Mcwhirter 196

so'net 3 / Paul Dutton 197

from Word Sonnets / Seymour Mayne 198

Head and Torso of the Minotaur / John Reibetanz 199

Appollo at Aberdeen / Hermenegilde Chiasson 201

from Glenn Gould Poems / Kate Braid 202

from The Golden Lotus / Diana Brebner 203

Waking / Anne Simpson 204

For Peter, My Cousin / Barbara Nickel 205

Rural Gothic / Shane Neilson 206

Stanza 207

Drought / Eric Duncan 210

Vagabond Song / Bliss Carman 210

Low Tide on Grand Pre / Bliss Carman 211

The City of the End of Things / Archibald Lampman 213

The Train Dogs / Pauline Johnson 216

Ebb Tide / Marjorie Pickthall 217

From the Hazel Bough / Earle Birney 218

Eastern Shore / Charles Bruce 219

The Still Small Voice / A. M. Klein 220

Water and Marble / P. K. Page 221

Old Women of Toronto / Miriam Waddington 222

The Naked Man / Michael Crummey 223

The Conductor / Adam Sol 224

Fool's Errand / Zachariah Wells 225

Syllabics 227

Death's Head / Phyllis Gotlieb 230

Round of Life / Richard Outram 231

from The Way Down / Jay Macpherson 232

Dream Prison / Barbara Myers 233

The Hands / Daniel David Moses 233

The Cherry Laurel / Russell Thornton 234

The Ghost of His Hand / Nancy Bennett 235

Tercet 236

A Night in June / Duncan Campbell Scott 238

Tigers Know From Birth / Anne Wilkinson 239

The Second Hand / Phyllis Webb 240

In Oak / Marianne Bluger 241

The Broken Cup / Sharon Thesen 242

3: Who was that? I ask / Richard Sanger 243

Blackjack / Steven Heighton 244

Triolet 246

Bread to Stone / Joy Kogawa 248

Triolets for Ken / Christopher Wiseman 248

Triolet for the Amphetamine Afflicted / Susan Mccaslin 250

Landing / Sandy Shreve 250

Vuillard Interior / Elise Partridge 251

Night, Hornby Island / Danielle Janess 251

Villanelle 252

Catharine Plouffe / Susie Frances Harrison 254

The Castle / P. K. Page 255

City Park Merry-Go-Round / Eli Mandel 256

Little Miracle / Molly Peacock 257

from Coming Up for Air / David Waltner-Toews 258

Crows / Carole Glasser Langille 259

The Ferry to South Baymouth / Bruce Meyer 260

... And More 261

from A Flame on the Spanish Stairs: John Keats in Rome / Douglas Barbour 264

Queen Mary, She's My Friend / Stephen Scobie 265

Constrained Response / Maxianne Berger 266

Blodmonath / Jon Furberg 267

Particle Limericks / Alan Wilson 268

Her Other Language / Nancy Mattson 269

from "Chapter E" / Christian Bok 271

Blues / BP Nichol 272

Hand Game / Frances Boyle 273.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 293) and indexes.

ISBN:

1551927772

OCLC:

57575283