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Susan Elmslie

Susan Elmslie

Monthly Archives: May 2012

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The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (El sueño de la razón produce monstruos)

28 Monday May 2012

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (El sueño de la razón produce monstruos)

Here’s a haiku-brief poem from When Your Body Takes to Trembling (Cranberry Tree 1996) that was inspired by Fransisco Goya’s etching.

Sleep and Monsters

ticking clock
high heels tapping on concrete
underground parking—

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An early poem, written in grade nine (at fourteen or fifteen years old)

26 Saturday May 2012

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Faith

I know I am foolish to hear your voice in the wind,
but summer is for you,
with its naked carelessness and infinite youth.
And I know you are somewhere
golden and brilliant,
laughing at the fragility of the world.

The Bright Well

23 Wednesday May 2012

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Susan has a poem in the powerful new anthology called The Bright Well: Contemporary Canadian Poems about Facing Cancer. Edited by Fiona Tinwei Lam, the book features poems for cancer patients, survivors, their families & friends. Here’s the link.

Readings online

23 Wednesday May 2012

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Susan’s reading at the Atwater Library is now online.

It’s in two parts.  Here’s the link.

And a reading from I, Nadja and Other Poems (Brick Books) is now on YouTube.  Click here to listen.

Recent Posts

  • Upcoming Reading: Les poètes de l’Amérique française
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  • A.M. Klein Poetry Prize Shortlist
  • Upcoming reading: Sept. 18th, at the Visual Arts Centre in Westmount
  • Museum of Kindness was shortlisted for the 2018 Pat Lowther Memorial Award

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