’ This conformance with reality is abetted by his very effective use of rhyme and metre
was published by Gordon Hill Press in Spring 2024
including The Journey Prize Anthology
the cordoned-off area: this cage theme encompasses everything from the calligraphic wrought-iron erected like architectonic ivy around French grave sites to depictions of animals in zoos
even an eloquent up-close exploration of the fearsome nature of an ordinary fly-swatter
A Game to Play on the Tracks Poetry ’ This conformance with realityA Game to Play on the Tracks by Lorna Jackson is the story of booze loose and too smart singer, Arden, and her failed return to the life of country music and the British Columbia bar scene. She has a new baby, some unhealed hurts, and a husband, Nichol, who is stuck in boyhood and thinks and talks in bad poems. Arden doesnt survive the road, and the story belongs then to Nichol and Roy the Boy, those left behind to search the west coast for a good