#canadianpoetry

[gregsantospoet]

Find Ghost Face and other titles by local authors at NDG’s cozy and welcoming @phoenixbooksndg! Swipe to see a couple of new poetry collections I picked up from Phoenix: ‘Sensorial’ by @carolynevdm and ‘Under an Underpass, a Fox’ by @james4j. . . . #ghostfacepoetry #gregsantos #poetry #canadianpoetry #canlit #montreal #montrealbookstore #phoenixbooks #carolynevandermeer #jameshawes #supportindependentbookstores (at Phoenix Books) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfHJgOrgMAYoLbNA5gaUn7vGCaAjScjH40Lpx00/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#ghostfacepoetry #gregsantos #poetry #canadianpoetry #canlit #montreal #montrealbookstore #phoenixbooks #carolynevandermeer #jameshawes #supportindependentbookstores

[jovesstudyroom]

Canadian doesn't just mean good with cold

It means complaining between November and March about -20C to -50C.

It means whining throughout June and August about +25C to +40C.

It means doing both things above during fall and spring with view days of blissful normal.

#canadian #canada #canadianpoetry???

[lantai-kampoeng]

As tought as it go throught it, just remember that you'll only come out with more inner strength, resilency, and profound personal growth • • • • Lots of love, @gina2quotes • • like • save • share • • • • • • • • _________________________________________ #poetry #quotes #poem #poetrycommunity #poetsofinstagram #writing #quoteoftheday #writerscommunity #gina2quotes #writers #words #bleedingsoulpoetry #bymepoetry #poetsanonymousink #silverleafpoetry #mode_poetry #streetwritersofficial #spilledink #untwineme #poetsandpoetryy #poetscity #poetsgrid #poets_area #herheartpoetry #canadianpoetry #globalagepoetry #poetstribe #writersflare #purpleheartpoetry (di Brownsville) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl8HIgNSLvI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#poetry #quotes #poem #poetrycommunity #poetsofinstagram #writing #quoteoftheday #writerscommunity #gina2quotes #writers #words #bleedingsoulpoetry #bymepoetry #poetsanonymousink #silverleafpoetry #mode_poetry #streetwritersofficial #spilledink #untwineme #poetsandpoetryy #poetscity #poetsgrid #poets_area #herheartpoetry #canadianpoetry #globalagepoetry #poetstribe #writersflare #purpleheartpoetry

[themoderncanadianreader]

Introduction

This blog was created for my Research Journal assignment for English 452: Modern Canadian Poetry. I will be documenting my readings and thoughts on modernism, poetry, and other Canadian literature throughout the semester. 

The majority of the readings will be from Canadian Poetry 1920 to 1960, ed. B. Trehearne (McClelland & Stewart), however some of my own findings will also be featured.

#canadianpoetry #modernist poetry #canadian literature

[blaisemoritz]

In reading @chutchi2 Chris Hutchinson’s poetry manuscript Meanwhile, Myrmidons (forthcoming from #anstrutherpress), I got into the word myrmidon. A cool word, but was a bit fuzzy for me. I remembered vaguely that there was a classical source and also a potentially negative connotation. These days, you may choose to go google myrmidon at this point. That’s what I did and was reminded of the soldiers who fought for Achilles, relentless and loyal, in brown or black armour suggesting their association with ants. Myths include the transformation of ants into people on a lonely island as the origin of the Myrmidons and an offbeat take on the Zeus seduction narrative in which he takes the form of an ant! The negative connotation comes from modern extrapolations of that loyalty and relentlessness as akin to the subservient menace of various species of “hired ruffian” (wikipedia’s turn of phrase). I often think of some of my flat line drawings as sculptural, especially ones that are standing figures in space. I trace this back to the “sculptural figures” in the drawings of William Blake and of Jack Kirby, but especially to Henry Moore. From an early age, I loved Moore’s drawings, a large selection of which hung on the walls of ramp that used to connect the first and second floors of the @agotoronto on the east side of the building leading up to the magical gallery of Moore plaster casts. I was thinking about Moore’s exploration of recurring motifs, such as standing figures and also some of his helmet heads and helmet-like forms such as Atom Piece. The result was a number of “myrmidons” such as this one. #draw #drawing #drawings #drawingoftheday #art #artists #artistsoninstagram #myrmidon #myrmidons #poetry #canadianpoetry #chapbook #poetrychapbook https://www.instagram.com/p/CRSerrWNipU/?utm_medium=tumblr

#anstrutherpress #draw #drawing #drawings #drawingoftheday #art #artists #artistsoninstagram #myrmidon #myrmidons #poetry #canadianpoetry #chapbook #poetrychapbook

[kpheyming]

KPH #kph #kphpoetry #poetry #poem #bymepoetry #writing #writer #typewriter #quotes #poet #northernpoet #canadianpoetry #canadiancontent #poetrybook #booklaunch #forthoseihaveloved https://www.instagram.com/p/CI6ETqzFKoB/?igshid=v6ts99bgdyh7

#kph #kphpoetry #poetry #poem #bymepoetry #writing #writer #typewriter #quotes #poet #northernpoet #canadianpoetry #canadiancontent #poetrybook #booklaunch #forthoseihaveloved

[soulserpent]

The Echoes of Time

Miles to go before i sleep

Because these mountains i climb are very steep

Frost told me to take the road less traveled

Now i mourn for an innocent childhood.

I cried for two days straight

Swept it under the carpet

Cinderella would be proud

The Grimm brothers never knew their echos would be loud.

Bukowski understood undeserved pain

But he lapped it up like a dog from hell

He was an asshole but put on a brave face

Love is a topic I still dare to dwell.

#poetry #canada #canadianpoetry #fairytales #realism #reality

[tashtoo]

Love is not a war won or lost on a battle field rather it is waged in those growing silent moments when you could have spoke and chose not to. Natasha Head ... ... ... ... #poetry #poetrycommunity #writerscommunity #wordporn #picoftheday #canadianpoetry #cannabiscreative #potpoetry https://www.instagram.com/p/BsrmjtKhCYM/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1b4ql28xvsdya

#poetry #poetrycommunity #writerscommunity #wordporn #picoftheday #canadianpoetry #cannabiscreative #potpoetry

[mj1982mjha]

Variations On The Word Love(Poem) This is a word we use to plug  holes with. It's the right size for those warm  blanks in speech, for those red heart-  shaped vacancies on the page that look nothing  like real hearts. Add lace  and you can sell  it. We insert it also in the one empty  space on the printed form  that comes with no instructions. There are whole  magazines with not much in them  but the word love, you can  rub it all over your body and you  can cook with it too. How do we know  it isn't what goes on at the cool  debaucheries of slugs under damp  pieces of cardboard? As for the weed-  seedlings nosing their tough snouts up  among the lettuces, they shout it.  Love! Love! sing the soldiers, raising  their glittering knives in salute. Then there's the two  of us. This word  is far too short for us, it has only  four letters, too sparse  to fill those deep bare  vacuums between the stars  that press on us with their deafness.  It's not love we don't wish  to fall into, but that fear.  this word is not enough but it will  have to do. It's a single  vowel in this metallic  silence, a mouth that says  O again and again in wonder  and pain, a breath, a finger  grip on a cliffside. You can  hold on or let go. #MargaretAtwood . #Poetry. #LovePoem. #Poem. #CanadianPoetry. #Literature. (at Samastipur) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxb7tSDhcoV/?igshid=3rj2fei5iihz

#margaretatwood #poetry #lovepoem #poem #canadianpoetry #literature

[suziethefoodie]

Blessed New 🌚!!! It felt like spring here in Toronto yesterday and the birds went crazy with song. Here is an urban pagan poem celebrating moments of hope of spring’s return! #badasspoetry #urbanpagan #suzieridler #poetry #poem #canadianpoetry #canadianpoet #newmoon (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/Btf4gA5jI3d/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1cfsseyv0ga9b

#badasspoetry #urbanpagan #suzieridler #poetry #poem #canadianpoetry #canadianpoet #newmoon

[inthevintagekitchen]

I’m so completely honored and thrilled that one of my sunflower photos (taken way back In 2012!) was featured yesterday in a Canadian poetry journal alongside this beautiful poem by Redgina Jean-Paul… Black SunFlower by Redgina Jean-Paul I am going over every single little thing every single— And I wish I could turn it off stop the train in its— Track my thoughts, pull them back, nocked-arrow’s fletching, set them— Free to choose, I wish… I want it to End. I do. I want perfect pitch black sun flower bed fellow man made  disaster. — from Juniper Volume 5, Issue 1 The photo is of a red sunflower variety called Drop Dead Red which I grew in my garden in 2012 and then wrote about on my blog, which is how the editor at the poetry journal recently found it. 🌻 I have loved sunflowers my whole entire life but it wasn’t until I started doing my own gardening about 20 years ago that I discovered red sunflowers and the intense shades they come in. Ranging from rust to almost-black, I became so smitten with them in 2012, that I ordered all the red variety sunflowers seeds I could find online and then planted them all over the garden. Two months later a couple hundred bloomed! That was back when I lived in another state on a lovely rural farm with cows for neighbors and my favorite camera 📸 always in hand. Sadly, my camera died a tragic death three years ago but I’m happy to still have the sunflower photos and the memories of those big patches of red faces dancing on the breeze. They added quite a bit of drama to the garden that year! It’s so fun to see that they also add a little bit of drama to poetry too:) ♥️ Cheers to Lisa and Redgina at Juniper for bringing these garden memories to light. And extra cheers to Redgina for her beautiful poem. 🥂 The journal added a a filter to my original photo giving it a pretty painterly effect. Included in this batch is the original photo I took along with other red sunflowers from the garden that year so that you can see the range of colors they come in. . . . . . #sunflowers #redsunflowers #poetry #blacksunflowers #poetryjournal #featuredphoto #canadianpoetry #redginajeanpaul #juniperpoetry #gardenstories https://www.instagram.com/p/CQeEQLcglES/?utm_medium=tumblr

#sunflowers #redsunflowers #poetry #blacksunflowers #poetryjournal #featuredphoto #canadianpoetry #redginajeanpaul #juniperpoetry #gardenstories

[gregsantospoet]

So pleased to have two new poems in the Summer 2021 issue of Toronto’s Juniper poetry journal. Many thanks to Lisa Young. Check out my two poems “Nighthawks” and “Lifting of the Veil”, along with my fellow contributors’ work at the following link or temporarily in my bio: (https://juniperpoetry.com/volume-5-issue-1/) . . . #gregsantos #juniperpoetryjournal #poetry #poetsofinstagram #writingcommunity #canlit #canadianpoetry #poetrycommunity https://www.instagram.com/p/CQbbqWANRIOcEL9i8_etmpiXIBspBDqSN3wglw0/?utm_medium=tumblr

#gregsantos #juniperpoetryjournal #poetry #poetsofinstagram #writingcommunity #canlit #canadianpoetry #poetrycommunity

[theuniverseinacan]

I Don’t Tell You Enough

I don’t tell you enough

That I love you

I don’t show you enough

That I care

When you need someone to lean on

I don’t show you enough

That I’m there

I don’t tell you enough

How beautiful you are

I don’t notice enough

When you do something special

With your outfit or your hair

I love you in a million ways

I want to find the light to show ’em

With more than a kiss a day

And a cliché poem

I don’t know how to tell you

I can’t offer a perfect life

My credit is bad, my bank account is sad,

And loving me can feel lonesome

I can’t tell you enough

That I want to spend my life with you

I’m a little mad, cracked I may add

But I’m cracking mad about you

Mad about who you are

Cracked for the things that you do

These things you do amaze me

They are why I have penned

This embarrassing gush

I write this bad poetry

In hopes that you will see

How much I love you

I don’t remember enough

How lucky I am

To somehow deserve the intensity of your love

It frustrates me too much

To know I cannot be the best man

For that is what you deserve

Nothing less will do

#poetry #creative writing #writing #canadianpoetry #saskatchewanwriting #bad poetry #poem

[hannieinwords]

gardens eve she lays still breathing 

he takes a heaping of her growth// feeds it to judas with his lion arms// picks his way at me until man hood//only heavens eyes know she lays in pink skies and comfortable lies //cherry blossom blond hair // continues to grow to her hips //rosie cheeks rose lips //still vital in gardens eve //// - hannie

#poetry #poems #ezeilie #literature #womensliterature #womenauthor #womenpoet #canadian #canadianpoetry

[neil137]

Birthday fest for three boys whose years on earth total 210. The celebrations included a cake adorned with 70 candles and a poem from Julie Berry. Happy Birthday Year to Ken, Jonathan and Robin. #birthdayyear #70yearsyoung @jewelweed7816 #canadianpoetry #chocolatecake (at St. Thomas, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEz1mAtnXet/?igshid=1rev3nw3ejpm5

#birthdayyear #70yearsyoung #canadianpoetry #chocolatecake

[blaisemoritz]

And finally, the original sketches for the two lucky “myrmidons” who made the cover of @chutchi2 Chris Hutchinson’s poetry chapbook Meanwhile, Myrmidons out now from #anstrutherpress In reading @chutchi2 Chris Hutchinson’s poetry manuscript Meanwhile, Myrmidons, I got into the word myrmidon. A cool word, but was a bit fuzzy for me. I remembered vaguely that there was a classical source and also a potentially negative connotation. These days, you may choose to go google myrmidon at this point. That’s what I did and was reminded of the soldiers who fought for Achilles, relentless and loyal, in brown or black armour suggesting their association with ants. Myths include the transformation of ants into people on a lonely island as the origin of the Myrmidons and an offbeat take on the Zeus seduction narrative in which he takes the form of an ant! The negative connotation comes from modern extrapolations of that loyalty and relentlessness as akin to the subservient menace of various species of “hired ruffian” (wikipedia’s turn of phrase). I often think of some of my flat line drawings as sculptural, especially ones that are standing figures in space. I trace this back to the “sculptural figures” in the drawings of William Blake and of Jack Kirby, but especially to Henry Moore. From an early age, I loved Moore’s drawings, a large selection of which hung on the walls of ramp that used to connect the first and second floors of the @agotoronto on the east side of the building leading up to the magical gallery of Moore plaster casts. I was thinking about Moore’s exploration of recurring motifs, such as standing figures and also some of his helmet heads and helmet-like forms such as Atom Piece. The result was a number of “myrmidons” such as this one. #draw #drawing #drawings #drawingoftheday #art #artists #artistsoninstagram #myrmidon #myrmidons #poetry #canadianpoetry #chapbook #poetrychapbook https://www.instagram.com/p/CRbbr3zNAKp/?utm_medium=tumblr

#anstrutherpress #draw #drawing #drawings #drawingoftheday #art #artists #artistsoninstagram #myrmidon #myrmidons #poetry #canadianpoetry #chapbook #poetrychapbook