So Now
Daphne Marlatt
$6
wet lashes
water embodied one of many
watery beings we skim wet
eyes down pavement swallows
saliva bodies yak yakking up alleyway
piss against old brick small
in the large undoing of other
being inter-
ested species love no single
winner involved this deep this
close-up sea-sky-weed-seal we
swim with
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
May 2026
produced in part for activity at Banff Centre, May 11-18,
2026, as part of the 50th anniversary of the University of
Alberta Writer-in-Residence program
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
Vancouver writer Daphne Marlatt is a critically acclaimed poet and novelist, known for her novel, Ana Historic (1988, 2004, 2013), Vancouver Poems (1972) and Liquidities (2013). The bicultural production of her Canadian Noh play set on the West Coast, The Gull, received the 2008 international Uchimura Naoya Prize. And her long poem in prose fragments, The Given, won the 2009 Dorothy Livesay Award. In 2012 she received the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award. Talonbooks issued her Collected Earlier Poems, 1968-2008, edited by Susan Holbrook, in 2017. In 2025, Chax Press, Arizona, released recent poems, Splinters & Streams.
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