ZW reads poems by John Clare and Louis MacNeice

ZW reads My Last Duchess

ZW reads poems inspired by Oliver Sacks

ZW reads A Prayer for My Daughter by WB Yeats

ZW reads father poems by Shane Neilson, Don Coles and Weldon Kees

Father's Day poems

ZW reads Thomas Hardy, Edna St. Vincent Millay and ZW

ZW reads Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins and John Clare

ZW reads Mark Strand

ZW reads Christopher Patton and Marianne Moore

ZW reads Barbara Nickel, Elise Partridge and Patrick Warner

ZW reads "The Moose" by Elizabeth Bishop

ZW reads Suzanne Buffam and Kerry-Lee Powell

ZW reads Barbara Nickel and Elise Partridge

ZW reads Patrick Warner and Ted Hughes

ZW reads Goran Simić

ZW reads Rafał Wojaczek and Wisława Szymborska

ZW reads Geoffrey Cook and Heinrich Heine

ZW reads Kenneth Leslie, Harry Thurston and ZW

ZW reads Anne Caston and Thomas Lynch

ZW reads Carmine Starnino and ZW

ZW reads Jennifer Polson Peterson and Eavan Boland

"Crusoe in England" by Elizabeth Bishop

"Crusoe's Island" by Derek Walcott

ZW reads Terrance Hayes and Carl Sandburg

ZW reads Heighton, Avison and ZW

ZW reads Langston Hughes and Claude McKay

ZW reads Hughes and McKay

ZW reads Coyle and Stallings

ZW reads Frost and Langer

ZW reads Elizabeth Bishop and ZW

ZW reads poems by Bruce Taylor and John Terpstra

ZW reads Derek Mahon's "A Disused Shed in County Wexford"

Reading online "at" the Halifax Public Library

I forgot to post this in advance, but I did an online Zoom reading with poets Shalan Joudry, Sam Sternberg and Emily Skov-Nielsen on April 30. It was very fun. Unfortunately, not recorded for posterity.

Article online

I spent the early days of self-isolation working on an article on landlord-tenant politics during the current pandemic. That article is now up on the website of Walrus Magazine.

Old Poem, New Home

I'm really pleased to have my poem "The Pond" republished in a new anthology, Sweet Water: Poems for the Watersheds, edited by Yvonne Blomer.


Because of the timing of its publication, a bunch of launch events had to be cancelled, but a virtual launch--in which I'll be taking part--has been scheduled for April 22 at 1630 Pacific Time. You have to register to attend and I think space is limited, so best to do so in advance.

QUARANTINE

Together, we are
apart. Apart, we
shelter. Storm still,

but we are
battered, two sides
of a weathered stone

dyke, leaning
into each other, over
our hearting.

Interview online

Not much to post here of late due to the fact that I've pretty much gone dormant as a writer and editor.

I'm ramping up as a socialist labour activist rabble-rouser, however, and recently did this interview with Michelle Robidoux of International Socialists.