Grant Wilkins
$6
Lightpublished in Ottawa by above/ground press
The light of the Moon clear and familiar
mystical dogma double-edged Cross
faithful commitment expression in circles
Romantic conviction written as loss
language opacity held in communion
historical origins of Infinite Man
memorably moonlit leitmotif paintings
performed in an epoch where Art failed to stand
jargon and cant the theories inferred
circling the horns Cornucopia’s right
language and history damned as a mystery
on religion’s poetics the corpses alight
January 2026
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Front cover art: Untitled, by Marije Bijl. Marije and her work can be found at: http://marijebijl.com.
Grant Wilkins is an occasional poet, printer and papermaker who has made a practice of doing strange things to other people’s words. He has degrees in History & Classical Civilization and in English, and he’s working on another one in Art History. He lives in Ottawa on the unceded and unsurrendered land of the Algonquin Anishinaabe people.
This is Wilkins’ fifth chapbook with above/ground press, after Reading The Great Classics Of Canlit through Book 5 of bpNichol’s The Martyrology (2022), In Which Archibald Lampman / Translates Arthur Rimbaud (2023), The Baroness and her Ex Read Orgasmic Toast: To Whom It May Concern (2023) and Poetic Constructions: Poems written for the Enriched Bread Artists’ 2020 Open Studio (2023).
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