The Essential Don ColesThe third in a celebrated Porcupine’s Quill series of ‘Essential Poets’ that already includes The Essential George Johnston (2007), and The Essential P. K. Page (2008). Volumes in preparation include The Essential Margaret Avison, The Essential James Reaney and The Essential Richard Outram, amongst others. |
Contents
Foreword Sometimes All Ove r1975 | 7 |
Photograph in a Stockholm Newspaper for March131910 Divorced Child | 11 |
Death of Women | 14 |
Sampling from a Dialogue | 15 |
William | 16 |
Codger | 17 |
Not Just Words but World | 18 |
Gull Lake Alta | 19 |
Mishenka in two versions | 28 |
Major Hoople | 30 |
Abandoned Lover 32 Abrupt Daylight Sadness | 32 |
Landslides six excerpts | 33 |
Walking in the Snowy Night | 38 |
Somewhere Far from This Comfort | 40 |
My Son at the Seashore Age | 42 |
Someone has stayed in Stockholm | 43 |
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