short poems with long titles
Grant Wilkins
$6
In a quiet moment, Phil Hall reflects on the role of the proper noun in the metaphysics of literature, as revealed to him in Ursula K. Le Guin’s rendition of the Tao Te Ching.
The rain stopped after midnight
and we stared out at the Aegean
mindful of the little things
being, non-being
and choke-cherry jam
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
August 2026
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
[Grant Wilkins launches provocations in Ottawa on August 22 as part of the above/ground press thirty-third anniversary reading/launch/party]
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’ sixth 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), Poetic Constructions: Poems written for the Enriched Bread Artists’ 2020 Open Studio (2023) and Towards A Poetry Of <something> Tentative / Notes from a stalled art project (2026).
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