Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Two poems, by Claudia Coutu Radmore

 

and for which self

inconsistent self, consenting self, blithering self, withering self, stone self, stoned self, moaning self, groaning self, exploding self, ice-coated self, public self, pubic self, crow self, crone self, crescent self, cul-de-sac self, deadly self, hesitant self, pleasant self, slipper self, zipper self, nipple self

loose self, goose self, chatterbox self, ludicrous self, luscious self, fusion self, confusion self, Confucius self, hybrid self, two-spirit self, cushy self, tushy self, glory self, horrified self, deified self, mortified self, haughty self, naughty self, oh my lovely self, oh get over your self

 

a long path from desire to decision:

sturdy spirit, urgent spirit, surgent spirit, resurgent spirit, innocent spirit, birdsong spirit, tell-all spirit, mycorrhizal spirit, fractious spirit

giddy spirit, soft spirit, cleft spirit, sleety spirit, dream spirit, shadow spirit, arrow spirit, clinging spirit, singing spirit, calm spirit, abandoned garden spirit, blossom spirit, sepal spirit

sun-laced spirit, sun-graced spirit, sun faced spirit, sun shower spirit, scared spirit, tractor sound spirit, wild rose spirit, moonglow spirit, colour spirit, owl hoot spirit, moot spirit, root spirit, mute spirit, rebuked

 

 

 


Claudia Coutu Radmore’s a moment or two/ without remembering and Your Hands Discover Me/ Tes mains me découvrent, were followed by Accidentals, which won Canada’s bpNichol Chapbook Award in 2011.  Often working in Japanese forms, the business of isness, a haiku collection, and fish spine picked clean, a tanka collection, were published by Ottawa’s Éditions des petits nuages in March, 2018. Her work has been published often in Canadian poetry journals. The chapbook, On Fogo was published by Alfred Gustav Press, Vancouver, summer 2018. She is Past President of Haiku Canada.

Recent publications: Pink Hibiscus: Poems of the South Pacific (2022. Ottawa, Éditions des petits nuages), rabbit (2020. Toronto, Aeolus House Press), Park Ex Girl: Life with Gasometer (2020. Montreal, Shoreline Press), camera obscura (2019. Above Ground Press), On Fogo (2018, The Alfred Gustav Press). Shoreline Press published Sweet Vinegars in October 2024.

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Two poems, by Claudia Coutu Radmore

  and for which self inconsistent self, consenting self, blithering self, withering self, stone self, stoned self, moaning self,...