In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry

by Braid, Kate; Shreve, Sandy; Page, P. K.

• ISBN13: 9781551927770
• ISBN10: 1551927772
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: Tightrope Books, Inc.

Summary

With this groundbreaking anthology, poets and teachers Kate Braid and Sandy Shreve set out to explore Canadian form poetry. The result is a thrilling collection of 175 poems, over 140 poets from the 18th century to the present day, and 20 distinct poetic forms (sonnets and ghazals, triolets and ballads, epigrams, pallindromes, blues and more) that will appeal to every poetry-lover as well as teachers and students of poetry. Poets include Bliss Carman, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Dennis Lee, George Elliott Clarke, Alden Nowlan, Gwendolyn MacEwan, Molly Peacock, Lorna Crozier, Anne Simpson, smile Nelligan, Adam Sol, Barbara Nickel, Christian Bok and over 100 more."No verse is free for the poet who wants to do a good job." -T. S. Eliot

Author Biography

Kate Braid is a poet. Her poetry books have won the Pat Lowther and VanCity Book Prizes and have been shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Prize. She teaches at Malaspina University-College. Sandy Shreve is a poet whose collections have received the Earle Birney Prize for Poetry and have been shortlisted for the Milton Acorn People’s Poetry Award and a National Magazine Award for Poetry. She founded Poetry in Transit in British Columbia and is the communications officer for the Legal Services Society. They both live in Vancouver, British Columbia. P. K. Page was a renowned Canadian poet who has been honored with the Governor General's Award, the first Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence, and with the status of Companion of the Order of Canada. She was the author of over 30 published books of poetry, fiction, travel diaries, essays, children's books, and an autobiography.

Table of Contents

Preface	11	(2)
Introduction	13	(8)
Ballad	21	(15)
The Contract Mucker	23	(1)
Wilson H. Thomson
Back on the Job	24	(1)
John G. Fisher
Buie Annajohn	25	(2)
Bliss Carman
The Cremation of Sam McGee	27	(3)
Robert Service
The Grey Rider	30	(1)
Norah M. Holland
The Lee-Shore	31	(1)
E.J. Pratt
1838	32	(2)
Dennis Lee
The Ballad of Echolocation	34	(2)
Ryan Knighton
Blues	36	(13)
Conjured	38	(1)
R. Nathaniel Dett
Metric Blues	39	(2)
F. R. Scott
Who	41	(1)
Frederick Ward
Self-Sufficient Blues	42	(1)
Maureen Hynes
The Diet	43	(1)
Bruce Meyer
King Bee Blues	44	(1)
George Elliott Clarke
blues	45	(1)
Christine Wiesenthal
Jump Rope Rhyme of the 49er Daughters	46	(1)
Wayde Compton
Alley Blues	47	(2)
Wayde Compton
Couplet	49	(11)
The Skater	51	(1)
Sir Charles G. D. Roberts
Bach Fugue	52	(1)
Barker Fairley
Egg-and-Dart	53	(1)
Robert Finch
The Third Eye	54	(1)
Jay Macpherson
April Elegy (Sam Selvon d. 1994)	54	(2)
Christopher Wiseman
James Clarence Mangan in Trinity College Library	56	(2)
Timothy Brownlow
Jaham Sings of the Fear of the Moon	58	(1)
Eric Ormsby
The Fall	59	(1)
Daniel David Moses
Epigram	60	(8)
from Quodlibets	61	(1)
Robert Hayman
Bugs	62	(1)
Anon
Brebeuf and his Brethren	63	(1)
F. R. Scott
from Four Epigrams	63	(1)
Robert Finch
News of the Phoenix	64	(1)
A. J. M. Smith
Going to Sleep	64	(1)
Dorothy Livesay
Very Short Poem	65	(1)
Raymond Souster
Tourist Stricken at the Uffizi	65	(1)
Richard Outram
Aunt Jane	66	(1)
Alden Nowlan
[you fit into me]	66	(1)
Margaret Atwood
from Winter Epigrams	67	(1)
Dionne Brand
Fugue and Madrigal	68	(10)
The Praying-Mantis	71	(1)
Annie Charlotte Dalton
The Ballad of the Pink-Brown Fence	72	(1)
Milton Acorn
The Children Are Laughing	73	(1)
Gwendolyn Macewen
And the Season Advances	74	(1)
Hermenegilde Chiasson
Fugue	75	(1)
Robyn Sarah
Night Piece	76	(1)
Robin Skelton
Madrigal, a Lullaby for Xan	77	(1)
Marilyn Bowering
Ghazal	78	(10)
from Sunday Water	81	(1)
Phyllis Webb
Ghazal V	81	(1)
Kuldip Gill
IX from Stilt Jack	82	(1)
John Thompson
from A Linen Crow, A Caftan Magpie	83	(1)
Patrick Lane
Of Night	84	(1)
Molly Peacock
Excellence in the small. Tears frozen on your face	85	(1)
Lorna Crozier
Tonight the Sky Is My Begging Bowl	85	(1)
Sina Queyras
Landscapes and home/Ghazal 22	86	(2)
Yvonne Blomer
Glosa	88	(15)
Planet Earth	90	(2)
P. K. Page
The Garden Temple	92	(1)
Patrick Lane
O Grandfather Dust	93	(3)
Glenn Kletke
Last Days	96	(2)
Betsy Struthers
Revelation	98	(1)
Aaron Pope
Jodi A. Shaw
What do you want?	99	(2)
Brenda Leifso
Norgberto Hernandez --- Photographed Falling September Eleventh	101	(2)
David Reibetanz
Haiku and Other Japanese Forms	103	(13)
from Spring	106	(1)
Winona Baker
Tanka	106	(1)
Henry Beissel
Father/Mother Haibun #5	107	(1)
Fred Wah
Shouting Your Name Down the Well	108	(1)
David W. McFadden
Leafsmoke	109	(2)
Marianne Bluger
from Hortus Urbanus/Urban Garden	111	(1)
Colin Morton
Shuffles	112	(1)
Brian Bartlett
Hymn for Portia White	113	(1)
George Elliott Clarke
Haiku Monument for Washington, D.C.	114	(1)
Michael Redhill
leavetaking	115	(1)
Rita Wong
Incantation	116	(14)
from Magic Words	118	(1)
Aua
Autochthon	118	(2)
Sir Charles G. D. Roberts
Twelve O'Clock Chant	120	(1)
Leonard Cohen
My Beloved is Dead in Vietnam	121	(1)
Thuong Vuong-Riddick
Nightspell	122	(1)
Jon Furberg
Bidding Spell	123	(2)
Penn Kemp
Turnips Are	125	(1)
BP Nichol
Widow's Winter	126	(1)
Marilyn Bowering
Life, Having Become Still	126	(1)
Brenda Brooks
Spell for a Daughter	127	(1)
Theresa Kishkan
Morenz	128	(1)
Tim Bowling
His Flute, My Ears	128	(2)
Gregory Scofield
Palindrome	130	(19)
Loop	132	(2)
Fiona Tinwei Lam
Mobius Strip	134	(10)
Anne Simpson
The Back Seat of My Mother's Car	144	(1)
Julia Copus
Dance	145	(1)
Sandy Shreve
The Shoreline	146	(2)
Joe Denham
ATM	148	(1)
Elizabeth Bachinsky
Pantoum	149	(14)
Labour Pantoum	151	(2)
Kirsten Emmott
The Dirty Thirties	153	(1)
Lorna Crozier
Empty Chairs	154	(1)
Maxianne Berger
In the Spring of No Letters	155	(1)
Marlene Cookshaw
Lines in the Sand	156	(1)
Richard Sanger
Lucy, Lucie	157	(1)
Peter Garner
Forecast: Nadja	158	(3)
Susan Elmslie
Post-War Procession	161	(2)
Anita Lahey
Rondeau Family	163	(12)
In Flanders Fields	166	(1)
John McCrae
Roundel to my Pipe	167	(1)
Emile Nelligan
Song for Naomi	168	(1)
Irving Layton
Rondeau Redouble	169	(1)
Margaret Avison
On A Kazoo	170	(2)
Dennis Lee
from Three Small Rooms	172	(1)
Colin Morton
from Autobiography	173	(1)
Marilyn Bowering
Down	174	(1)
Mark Abley
Sestina	175	(13)
The Edge	177	(1)
Fred Cogswell
Sestina on a Train	178	(2)
Al Purdy
The Beauty of Job's Daughters	180	(1)
Jay Macpherson
Ritual	181	(2)
Sue Chenette
In Juarez	183	(1)
Sue Wheeler
The Lovers' Sestina	184	(2)
Bruce Meyer
Sestina of the Geographic Tongue	186	(2)
Rachel Rose
Sonnet	188	(19)
The King's Sabbath	191	(1)
Archibald Lampman
Sonnet	192	(1)
Kenneth Leslie
Cathleen Sweeping	193	(1)
George Johnston
Tennis	194	(1)
Margaret Avison
Acoustics	195	(1)
W. H. New
An Era of Easy Meat at Locarno	196	(1)
George McWhirter
so'net 3	197	(1)
Paul Dutton
from Word Sonnets	198	(1)
Seymour Mayne
Head and Torso of the Minotaur	199	(2)
John Reibetanz
Apollo at Aberdeen	201	(1)
Hermenegilde Chiasson
from Glenn Gould Poems	202	(1)
Kate Braid
from The Golden Lotus	203	(1)
Diana Brebner
Waking	204	(1)
Anne Simpson
For Peter, My Cousin	205	(1)
Barbara Nickel
Rural Gothic	206	(1)
Shane Neilson
Stanza	207	(20)
Drought	210	(1)
Eric Duncan
Vagabond Song	210	(1)
Bliss Carman
Low Tide on Grand Pre	211	(2)
Bliss Carman
The City of the End of Things	213	(3)
Archibald Lampman
The Train Dogs	216	(1)
Pauline Johnson
Ebb Tide	217	(1)
Marjorie Pickthall
From the Hazel Bough	218	(1)
Earle Birney
Eastern Shore	219	(1)
Charles Bruce
The Still Small Voice	220	(1)
A. M. Klein
Water and Marble	221	(1)
P. K. Page
Old Women of Toronto	222	(1)
Miriam Waddington
The Naked Man	223	(1)
Michael Crummey
The Conductor	224	(1)
Adam Sol
Fool's Errand	225	(2)
Zachariah Wells
Syllabics	227	(9)
Death's Head	230	(1)
Phyllis Gotlieb
Round of Life	231	(1)
Richard Outram
from The Way Down	232	(1)
Jay Macpherson
Dream Prison	233	(1)
Barbara Myers
The Hands	233	(1)
Daniel David Moses
The Cherry Laurel	234	(1)
Russell Thornton
The Ghost of His Hand	235	(1)
Nancy Bennett
Tercet	236	(10)
A Night in June	238	(1)
Duncan Campbell Scott
Tigers Know From Birth	239	(1)
Anne Wilkinson
The Second Hand	240	(1)
Phyllis Webb
In Oak	241	(1)
Marianne Bluger
The Broken Cup	242	(1)
Sharon Thesen
3: Who was that? I ask	243	(1)
Richard Sanger
Blackjack	244	(2)
Steven Heighton
Triolet	246	(6)
Bread to Stone	248	(1)
Joy Kogawa
Triolets for Ken	248	(2)
Christopher Wiseman
Triolet for the Amphetamine Afflicted	250	(1)
Susan Mccaslin
Landing	250	(1)
Sandy Shreve
Vuillard Interior	251	(1)
Elise Partridge
Night, Hornby Island	251	(1)
Danielle Janess
Villanelle	252	(9)
Catharine Plouffe	254	(1)
Susie Frances Harrison
The Castle	255	(1)
P. K. Page
City Park Merry-Go-Round	256	(1)
Eli Mandel
Little Miracle	257	(1)
Molly Peacock
from Coming Up for Air	258	(1)
David Waltner-Toews
Crows	259	(1)
Carole Glasser Langille
The Ferry to South Baymouth	260	(1)
Bruce Meyer
... And More	261	(13)
from A Flame on the Spanish Stairs: John Keats in Rome	264	(1)
Douglas Barbour
Queen Mary, She's My Friend	265	(1)
Stephen Scobie
Constrained Response	266	(1)
Maxianne Berger
Blodmonath	267	(1)
Jon Furberg
Particle Limericks	268	(1)
Alan Wilson
Her Other Language	269	(2)
Nancy Mattson
from ``Chapter E''	271	(1)
Christian Bok
Blues	272	(1)
BP Nichol
Hand Game	273	(1)
Frances Boyle
Notes to the Poems	274	(6)
Coming to Terms	280	(13)
Bibliography	293	(1)
Permissions	294	(5)
Indices	299	(4)
Acknowledgements	303