Poetry Is Dead
issue Three

Temporary Structures

Published date: March 2011

 

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Issue three, "Temporary Structures" is 64 pages of poetry, interviews and original art, investigating form from all angles.

This issue includes an essay by Jacob McArthur Mooney on sonnets taking new forms, poems by Jason Christie, Jonathon Wilcke, Gillian Sze and Kim Goldberg, an interview with Sina Queyras and much more.

Contents

Essays

  • Do I Smell Like 9 to 5?

    by Carmen Joy King

  • Lovers & Taxonomists: On Sonnets, Bervin & Betts, Strand & Boland

    by Jacob McArthur Mooney

Poems

  • Landlord

    by Jona Xhepa

  • So Much Rain

    by Vaughan Chapman

  • A Large Stake

    by Monica Kidd

  • Apocalypse Haiku

    by Ben Rawluk

  • beer @ 4 am

    by Tracy Stefanucci

  • Lament

    by Gillian Sze

  • We Speak of Silence, Not in Breath

    by Rob Taylor

  • Zombie Sonnet

    by Juleigh Howard-Hobson

  • January 31st

    by Kelsi Weys

  • In My Garden In East Vancouver

    by Renee Sarojini Saklikar

  • Tiny Notes On Tiny Aspects On Tiny Situations

    by Kegan McFadden

Featured Artists

Poems

  • Text Imperfect Lessons

    by Joshua Rapp Learn

  • Excerpts From A Project On Found Poetry

    by Eric Schmaltz

  • Transfiguration

    by Catherine Owen

  • Priorities

    by Matthew Stranach

  • Beer, Blood & Bukowski

    by Shannon Rayne

  • Soundless 9

    by Andrew Topel

  • Untitled

    by Michael Nardone

  • Villanelle for the End of the Day

    by Chris Gutkind

  • rvr vly (for Edmonton)

    by Robert Swereda

  • Probably

    by Charles Bateman

  • Christmas at the Liquor Control Board of Ontario

    by Christine McNair

  • Atmospheric Inversion

    by Kim Goldberg

  • Faulkland Islands Wolf

    by Ryan Fitzpatrick

  • Lyric Pome

    by Sean Braune

  • November

    by Jamie Bradley

  • Barometer

    by Jim Ryder

Poems

  • Dear Employer

    by Alex Leslie

  • Act x of x

    by Jason Christie

  • Nature Prefers the Lawnmower

    by Jonathon Wilcke

  • Barcodes

    by Rebecca LaMarre

Interview

  • Lemon Hound

    An interview with Sina Queyras
    Conducted by Daniel Zomparelli

Reviews

  • Decompositions by Ken Belford

    reviewed by Nikki Reimer

  • Deepwater Vee by Melanie Siebert

    reviewed by Jodan Abel

  • Nox by Anne Carson

    reviewed by Jordan Abel

  • Soul on Standby by Antonio Di Nardo

    reviewed by Angela Hibbs

  • The Good News About Armageddon by Steve McOrmond

    reviewed by Daniel Zomparelli

Special Features

  • Erasure Poetry

    by Wikipedia

  • Erasure Poem For Egypt

    Page Layoutby Art Director & Mirak Jamal

  • Excerpt from Discovery Passages

    by Garry Thomas Morse and typeset by Mirak Jamal & Easton West

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Temporary Structures

Issue three is now available in bookstores across Canada, get it now by subscribing. Issue three is 64 pages of poems, interviews and original art. This issue includes an essay by Jacob McArthur Mooney, poems by Jason Christie, Jonathon Wilcke, Gillian Sze, Kim Goldberg, an interview with Sina Queyras and much more.

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