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Call for Submissions: Ekphrastic Poetry

Where do you find inspiration for writing poetry? Our feelings and experiences are often the fuel for poems, but what about drawing inspiration from a painting, a sculpture or a video installation?

Welcome Our New Editor, Monique!

Dear Readers,

Summer is upon us! As we welcome the long days and beautiful weather, I would also like to announce some important changes to the Re:verse editorial team. I have had the great pleasure of assisting editors Stephanie Hallett and Amy Carlberg with this Summer issue and will be taking over as editor beginning in Fall 2010.

Lousy Explorers by Laisha Rosnau (Nightwood Editions, 2009) Review by Amelia Rogers

Laisha Rosnau does not fit the definition of a young poet and it shows. The loudest voice of her latest poetry collection, Lousy Explorers, speaks from a place of experience and motherhood. However, this fact should not deter a younger audience from savouring every rich word that Rosnau writes. Though she speaks from the perspective of adulthood, it is with the eyes of one new to the job.

Life As A Honeysuckle

Life As A Honeysuckle
by Chris Lilley


Once I dreamt of heat
so hot neither love nor fire could touch
it burns my skin red
glistening brown
these summer days
how I dream they will never go away
I only live for 3 months out of the year
seasons change and you move on,
seasons change
light is beautiful
how they show off their sun kissed model’s bodies

A Call to Worship

A Call to Worship
by Amelia Rogers

Still these heavenly seas you sail each day,
Oh Falcon of the sky; forever King!
It is no longer you to whom we pray
To ease our pain, or end our suffering.
What gods need we who can make our own light?
With fire in our hands we boldly play.
Yet still for us you battle through the night,

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