Category: Poetry
Guite’s Visit
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
The Turning Aside: The Kingdom Poets Book of Contemporary Christian Poetry
imago proudly presents: Life is not hurrying on to a receding future, nor hankering after an imagined past. It is the turning aside like Moses to the miracle of the lit bush… – wrote Welsh... Read More
A stay against confusion a push against reduction
The subject of poetry has been haunting me for some time. I want to read more poetry, better understand its importance, engage its insights, and discern why it is so much a part of the fabric o... Read More
Flames Of Affection, Tongues Of Flame
I walked to the end of Dundurn Street, to the quiet hind of a busy road, where the bus loops. I walked to the foot of the escarpment and looked up, way, way up, at all those stairs. And though they ar... Read More
Poet – Richard Wilbur
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
Noir Architecture – Hamish Robertson
The three poems and two images here presented are part of a much longer sequence which has recently been exhibited in the gallery of the Ryerson Polytechnic University’s School of Image Arts under t... Read More