Stephen Collis | Issue 35

The Country of PoetsText within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedThe country of poets isbeing bombed againI can see the clouds of word-dustbillowing into the televised aircries come out of burnt nightsmetered but tending towardsa fractured syntaxand the unexpected imagenot a dovebut a singing mechanical birdperched on a tank’s gunits new rhythmsthe staccato of RPGsthe phosphorous of idiot wind

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Stephen Collis is the author of over a dozen books of poetry and prose, including The Commons (2008), the BC Book Prize winning On the Material (2010), and Almost Islands: Phyllis Webb and the Pursuit of the Unwritten (2018)—all published by Talonbooks. A History of the Theories of Rain (2021) was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for poetry, and in 2019, Collis was the recipient of the Writers’ Trust of Canada Latner Poetry Prize. The Middle, the second volume of a trilogy begun with A History of the Theories of Rain, will be published in 2024. He lives near Vancouver, on unceded Coast Salish Territory, and teaches poetry and poetics at Simon Fraser University. 

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