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Out of print, available in some libraries:
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The Orphan and the Stranger, poetry. Toronto: 
Wolsak & Wynn Publishers, 1985  (out of print, available in libraries)

Poems based on the lives and deaths of both the poet’s parents.

Partial Contents:
▪ “Song of the Runaway Father”                
▪ “What Shall We Do with My Father’s Portrait?”           
▪ “Still Life with Television”
▪ “Anti-Lullaby”
▪ “My Mother Abdicates”
▪ “The Orphan and the Stranger”



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Hollandsong, poetry. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1975 
(out of print, available in libraries)

Poems of love and love’s waning.

Partial contents:                  

▪ Poem for Silence and a Name
▪ The Potters’ Morning 
▪“The spider knows his centre…” 
▪ Balcony Ballad 
▪ At Love            
▪“Hubband in de Kitchen…”


                















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No Lingering Peace, poetry. Fredericton: The Fiddlehead Press, 1972 
(out of print, available in libraries) 

The poet’s first collection. 

Partial Contents:
▪ “New Snow in March”
▪ “We, as Poetic Device”     
▪ “Birds in Water”
▪ “Homegoing Blues”
▪ “Song about Songs”
▪ “The Grey Coat”

Anthologies
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 "An Evening of Poetry," story, in A Trip Around McFadden, a 70th birthday festschrift, 
ed. Jim Smith and Stuart Ross, Toronto, Front Press/Proper Tales Press, 2010

"An Evening of Poetry" was subsequently published as a chapbook by Twoffish Press.



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"Alive, Unique," essay, in Imagination in Action: Thoughts on Creativity by Painters, Sculptors, Musicians, Poets, Novelists, Teachers, Actors..., 
ed. Carol Malyon. Toronto: The Mercury Press, 2007


First, there is an underlying deep focus, a meditative state, and I notice my breathing slow down of its own accord. Then, in the elevator, a neighbour happens to mention the weather, and a poem begins: climbing the rain.                 
                           

 
      

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"A Lesson in Resuscitation," narrative poem, and "The Singular Sister," story, in 
Tales for an Unknown City: Stories from One Thousand and One Friday Nights of Storytelling, 
ed.  Dan Yashinsky. Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990.     
                     


 





​The Third Taboo: A Collection of Poems on Jealousy
, ed. Heather Cadsby and Maria Jacobs. Toronto: Wolsak & Wynn Publishers, 1983.

Whale Sound, ed. Greg Gatenby. North Vancouver: J.J. Douglas Ltd., 1977
 
Handbook

New Poet’s Handbook, edited and compiled by Marvyne Jenoff for The League of Canadian Poets, 1983 and 1985. (out of print, available in libraries)