The Gig 17
October 2004
Poetry
| Steve McCaffery | from Dark Ladies |
| Christine Stewart | The Trees of Periphery |
| William Fuller | Work of the Beast Goshen Traherne Enquiry |
| Susan M. Schultz | The Left-Handed Pornographer Country Girl Natural Speech |
| Tom Orange | Seven Poems |
| Gavin Selerie | from Le Fanu’s Ghost: Erose, Soul’s Ward |
| derek beaulieu | variance (august) interruption interruption 2 |
| Shelby Matthews | not – such as eating with forks |
| Karen Mac Cormack | On License |
| Robert Sheppard | Only the Eyes Are Left A Scalpel of Light Slicing Through a Smile |
Essay
| Keston Sutherland | What Is Called John Wilkinson? |
Reviews
| Nate Dorward | on Kelvin Corcoran’s New and Selected Poems; Ian Davidson’s Harsh, At a Stretch, and Human Remains & Sudden Movements; Ralph Hawkins’ The MOON, The Chief Hairdresser (highlights); new books from La Perruque Editions and Poets Poems; Pissing Ice: An Anthology of ‘New’ Canadian Poets; and new magazines |
| Tony Baker | on Ken Edwards’ eight + six and Tony Lopez’s False Memory |
| Brian Reed | on Alan Halsey’s new edition of Thomas Lovell Beddoes’ Death’s Jest-Book |
| David Kennedy | on The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood, ed. Patricia Dienstfrey and Brenda Hillman, and American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language, ed. Claudia Rankine and Julliana Spahr. |
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