Once one of the best known in Canada, but he did not write a lot, & since his death his reputation has faded a bit (partly due to all the younger poets publishing), although a terrific Selected came out a few years ago. A master of the dark comedic vision, & sometimes just dark…
http://chaudierebooks.com/books/argument.html
Doug
> On Nov 27, 2015, at 9:10 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Good lines, Doug. Newlove new to me.
>
> Bill
>
> On Saturday, November 28, 2015, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> Ta everyone.
>>
>> Bill: well, what I meant if I meant & what you mean…
>>
>> I am thinking of how ‘we’ never really say these things, it continues. I
>> was also thinking of the line by one of Canada’s finest late 20th C poets,
>> John Newlove:
>>
>> Nothing I'd read
>> prepared me for a body this unfair.
>>
>> Doug
>>> On Nov 26, 2015, at 2:32 AM, Patrick McManus <
>> [log in to unmask] <javascript:;>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Cheers Doug enjoyed the scattered sort of build up and layoutmine get
>> mentioned all the time -my biggest pain at the moment is forgetting
>> things!! had to read last verse a couple of times
>>>
>>> -----Original Message----- From: Douglas Barbour
>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2015 4:39 PM
>>> To: [log in to unmask] <javascript:;>
>>> Subject: snap (for all the oldies)
>>>
>>> the little pains
>>> slowly do you in
>>> year by year by year
>>>
>>> they appear
>>> in the knee the
>>> wrist always
>>>
>>> somewhere in the back
>>> here there &
>>> gone again for
>>>
>>> a day a week
>>> perhaps but
>>> little by little
>>>
>>> they accumulate
>>> as never really mentioned
>>> were they
>>>
>>> Douglas Barbour
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>>>
>>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation
>> 2 (UofAPress).
>>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>>>
>>> Done in by creation itself.
>>>
>>> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
>>> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
>>> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
>>>
>>> Robert Kroetsch.
>>
>> Douglas Barbour
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>>
>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2
>> (UofAPress).
>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>>
>> Done in by creation itself.
>>
>> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
>> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
>> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
>>
>> Robert Kroetsch.
>>
Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Done in by creation itself.
I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
Robert Kroetsch.
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