Table of Contents
Foreword Dane Swan xi
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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
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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
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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 1st, 2nd, 3rd time 333
Reconciliation 334
Abyss 335
Captain Injun 336
Pratap Reddy 339
The Lime Tree 340
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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