Mark Dickinson. Canadian Primal: Poets, Places, and the Music of Meaning. McGill-Queens University Press, 2021. It was a rainy afternoon in February in the late 1990s and I was jogging by Fort Langley (east of Vancouver). The clouds had been socked in heavy and dark for days blocking out the spectacular, jagged peaks of the North Shore […]
Poetry
Randal’s Poems: “Pine Tree RIP”
I just discovered in my files a collection of poems I wrote many years ago and I will be posting some of them in the weeks to come. Here is “Pine Tree RIP” from 1990: Pine Tree RIP (1990) Pine tree, pine tree, standing proud and tall, thick aged trunk gnarled by time’s passing. How many […]
