The Walrus, The Fiddlehead

Very glad to have a poem in the current (May) issue of The Walrus that you can read here. I’m in good company considering there’s also an excellent poem by Vanessa Stauffer (both poems are about fathers) and if you don’t subscribe it’s a great Canadian magazine covering relevant issues every month. I’m honoured to have a poem in it.

There’s also, by pure coincidence, a first poem of mine in The Fiddlehead, where I’ve submitted on and off since the 1990s (which is the only record that breaks how long I’ve submitted to The Walrus) so I’m also pleased and honoured to have a poem in Canada’s oldest literary magazine. And again, it’s a poem about my father. Of course, it’s also well worth subscribing to The Fiddlehead and please check in to the site because I’ve also contributed a review under Stop! Look! Listen! that should appear before long. I’ve taken a look at On Browsing by Jason Guriel.

Now that I’ve managed these two publications I’m honestly not quite sure where to turn next, but apparently I should have been writing more poems about my father as people have found them poignant. To be clear, he’s a very honourable, quiet man I happened to find a complete mystery as a child. These poems capture something of the love I continue to feel for him and the endlessly fascinating way we can be a mystery to each other, even under the same roof.