new from above/ground press: Albanian Suite, by Hugh Thomas

Albanian Suite

Hugh Thomas

$4

Triumph

What fraction I?  A delve of endlessness

in everything's great act.

One whirled among millions,

a first star like some last release.

Triumph at life, of other, triumph at finish til!

That moment ice-cold run its ardour,

hear night's deepest flood,

stand as mountain under sun.

Time changes, understands, controls;

you come with new ranks, a thousand lists to tie me.

Time, you murderous;

sun fills my lungs with honey,

says: the stars are going slower,

and nonetheless very quietly. 

published in Ottawa by above/ground press

January 2014

a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Hugh Thomas is a poet and translator living in Fredericton, where he teaches mathematics at the University of New Brunswick. His most recent chapbook, Opening the Dictionary, published by above/ground press, was shortlisted for the 2012 bpNichol chapbook award. Franzlations, a collection of illustrated Kafka remixes, created with Gary Barwin and Craig Conley, was published by New Star Books in 2011.

This is his second chapbook with above/ground press, after Opening the Dictionary (2011).

[Hugh Thomas launches Albanian Suite on February 6, 2014 in Ottawa alongside m erskine and N.W. Lea as part of The Factory Reading Series]

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9 or paypal at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com