The Mother Tongue

“Poetry is the mother tongue of the human race.” – J.G. Hamann (1730–1788) How do we negotiate our way through the difficult terrain of an uncertain world? The unsettling realities of cont... Read More

Guite’s Visit

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The Cambridge poet Malcolm Guite paid a short visit to Toronto at the beginning of April which –as it turns out – is poetry month. He was in Toronto under the auspices of Image Journal. IMAGO was ... Read More

Poet – Richard Wilbur

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b. March 1, 1921 Now at 90 years of age in his latest volume of poems Anterooms, Wilbur takes time to reflect on human mortality. The following excerpt is taken from an article by Canadian scholar Dav... Read More

Poetry

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I decided to challenge myself as a poet. For the month of September I chose to exchange the comfortable coffee shop laptop experience for something new. Every day in September I took the subway from m... Read More

Poiema

D. S. Martin’s first full book of poetry entitled, Poiema is out. Publishers Wipf & Stock quote Luci Shaw as saying “Each of these poems makes you want to descend to its heart and discover th... Read More