Changing the Face of Canadian Literature

by Dane Swan (Editor)

Overview

Needless to say, moments like now, when the hurdles to becoming a respected author are at their lowest. When the only hurdles to being published are the quality of your writing and your patience to deal with certain less and less important gatekeepers. Moments in history like this, must be acknowledged and celebrated. That's what this anthology is: It's a celebration. A moment to cry out, Look how many of us have a voice! There are stories, and poetry in this country that are about people like me! I am not alone!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781771835244
Publisher:	Guernica Editions, Incorporated
Publication date:	09/01/2020
Series:	Essential Anthologies Series , #12
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	400
File size:	607 KB

About the Author

Dane Swan is a Bermuda-born, Toronto-based spoken word artist, former slam poet, musician, author, and editor. A former remedial English student, he is now an author of both fiction and poetry. Dane's second poetry collection, A Mingus Lullaby, was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry in 2017.

Table of Contents

Foreword Dane Swan xi

01

Norma Dunning 001

Kabloona Red 002

Adam Pottle 009

School for the Deaf 010

Pamela Mordecai 019

Excerpts from The Tear Well 020

Sennah Yee 033

5 Haiku for/from Canada 034

Blade Runner 2049 (2017) 035

$$$ 036

But I'm a Cheerleader (2000) 037

Wanderlust 038

Micro 039

Kaie Kellough 047

Capital 048

Charlie Petch 057

My First Boyfriend 058

Daughter of Geppetto 061

Speaking Bradbury 067

Doretta Lau 071

At Core We Think They Will Kill Us 072

Jesús Maya 081

Toronto (Spanish) 082

Toronto 083

02

Verdad 086

Right Mamá? 087

Mi Mundo Visto desde el Ground Floor 092

My World as Seen from the Ground Floor 093

Sheena Kamal 097

Sticky Issues and the Absent Latina 098

Mary Pinkoski 105

Let the Ghosts Out: A suite of poems 106

Sara Tilley 117

Crystal 118

Jamaal Jackson Rogers 131

Medicine 132

Belonging 136

Ayelet Tsabari 139

Green 140

Doyali Islam 147

She 148

Leslie Shimotakahara 151

The Breakwater 152

Charles C. Smith 165

4 for julius eastman 166

Going home 175

Incursion 177

Is this the magic? 178

The passion of things 180

03

Daniele D'Onorio 183

No Camp for the Soul 184

Alessandra Naccarato 197

Girlhood 198

The Fish 199

This Is How You Make a Haunting 200

Homestead 202

Jael Richardson 205

Resurrection Sunday 206

Dwayne Morgan 219

Colin K 220

Smile 224

Facebook 229

Danila Botha 233

Sometimes I like to Shoot Kids 234

Michael Fraser 247

The Black Union Dead 248

Walking Home 249

Grand Junction 250

Midlife (after Jennifer Chan) 252

Stage Four 253

Jennilee Austria 257

The Kayaking Lesson 258

Jan Keteku 277

Moment I 278

Point of Boiling 280

04

And 281

Forgiveness 282

Winter 284

Autumn 285

Intermission 286

Elephants 287

Take Care 289

It is always awake 290

Leesa Dean 293

When Saturn Returns 294

Nasra Adem 307

Mniwiconi 308

Wooman 311

Tanya Evanson 315

Book Of Wings 316

Ashley Hynd 327

A Spoonful of sugar (helps the medicine go down) 328

My partner reads Gregory Scofield 329

Post-colonial relations (for the missing) 330

Post-colonial Sea Salt 332

On being published for the 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd time 333

Reconciliation 334

Abyss 335

Captain Injun 336

Pratap Reddy 339

The Lime Tree 340

05

Klara du Plessis 357

Essay dweller 358

Quidditief/Quiddity 360

Immaculate conception 361

A milk 363

Oeath will desperate 365

To the woodcut above my writing desk 367

Acknowledgements 372

Anthologies ft.diverse/disenfranchised Canadian voices 374