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Susan Elmslie

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My responses to the “Author Questionnaire” are now up at the Brick Books site

02 Friday Oct 2015

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http://www.brickbooks.ca/bookauthors/susan-elmslie/

On my author page at Brick Books, I respond to the following questions:  When did you start writing?  Why do you write? Has this changed over time?  Who are some of your favourite writers? And what do you draw from their work?  Explain a particular poem of yours from a Brick Books publication.

Happy New Ear

15 Wednesday Jan 2014

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for Wes, and with thanks to Phoebe (age 3) for the title

Here’s to fresh starts, clearing the decks,
making it new, forgiving debts. Last year
was grim. All bets were off. Needles and pins
and sink or swim. Grist for the mill and misery
loves company, a bitter pill, a monkey-
wrench in the machinery. Tooth and nail and
a leap in the dark. When it rains it pours. Listen,
here’s to fresh starts.

Déjà vu

10 Tuesday Dec 2013

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slides into home plate

like a clumsy shy kid,   long after

the field has cleared.

A twinge

and the sun creeps out from behind a cloud

a doorway flasher, the half smile

smoother than Man Ray photographs, the mouth

full of don’t know.  Just enough

for the hungry snake of a heart

that gulps moments whole.

from I, Nadja, and Other Poems (Brick 2006)

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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.

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