Roger Nash

Awards

• Prism International Poetry Contest, first prize, 1985/86.
• The Fiddlehead Writing Contest, first prize, poetry, 1993-94.
• Canadian Jewish Book Award, Poetry, 1997.
• Confederation Poets Award, Arc Magazine, 1997 for Circumstantial Evidence of the Visitation of Angels.
• PEN/O.Henry Short Story Prize finalist for "The Camera and the Cobra," anthologized in the PEN/O.Henry Prize Stories 2009.
• Professor Emeritus, Laurentian University, 2009.
• First Poet Laureate of the City of Greater Sudbury, appointed by Mayor and Council, 2010.

  Books

• Upsidoon,
• The Camera and the Cobra,
• Sound of Sunlight, Buschekbooks,
• Something Blue and Flying Upward: New and Selected Poems
• The Poetry of Prayer, 2nd, expanded edition, Harleston, UK: Edgeways Books, 2004
• Once I was a Wheelbarrow, Calgary, AB: Bayeux Arts, 2000, 86p.
• Licking Honey Off A Thorn. North Bay: League of Canadian Poets and Catchfire Press, 48p. 1998
• Northern Prospects: An Anthology of Northeastern Ontario Poetry. Sudbury: Your Scrivener Press, 1998, 120 pp.
• Spring-Fever. Sudbury/Toronto: Your Scrivener Press/ League of Canadian Poets, 42p. 1997
• . Toronto: Insomniac Press, 1997, 125p. Nash, R., Davidson, C. Dunn, S,. Lever, B. Reaney, J. and Sward, R.
• In the Kosher Chow Mein Restaurant. Sudbury, ON: Your Scrivener Press, 1996.
• The Poetry of Prayer. Norfolk, EN: Brynmill Press. 60p., 1994.
• Ethics, Science, Technology and the Environment: A Reader. Athabasca University Press, 1993.
• Ethics, Science, Technology and the Environment: A Study Guide. Athabasca University Press, 1993.
• Night Flying. Fredericton: Fiddlehead Poetry Books—Goose Lane Editions, 83p., 1990
• Psalms From The Suburbs. Kingston: Quarry Press, 73p., 1986
• Settlement In A School of Whales. Fredericton: Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 55p., 1983

  Chapters

Articles

• Co-authored with B. C. Nash, "Helping Young Children Express Their Feelings", Journal of the Canadian Association for Young Children, Vol. 4:1, 1977, pp. 37–42. Reprinted in Principals' And Administrators' Guide to Kindergarten, O.I.S.E. Press, 1979.
• "Dickie: Defining Art and Falsifying Dada", The Journal of Aesthetic Education, Vol. 15, July 1981, pp. 107–111.
• Abstract of "Dickie: Defining Art and Falsifying Dada", in The Philosopher's Index. Also stored in Dialog.
• "Education In The Critical Viewing of Modern Art", Teacher Education, No. 19, 1981, pp. 63–72.
• Abstract of "Art Education: Children's Concepts of Actively Experiencing Art, And Of The Artist As Communicating With Them", Reporting Classroom Research, Vol. 11:2, 1982, pp. 4–5.* "God and Beauty", The Gadfly: A Quarterly Review Of English Letters, Vol. 6, No. 4, November 1983, pp. 9–20.
• "The Poem's Creation Of Its Readers", Quarry, Vol. 32, No. 4, Autumn 1983, special issue on Creative Reflections, pp. 81–82.
• "The Education of Feeling and Emotion", review article, Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, Vol. 15, No. 3, 1984, pp. 72–76.
• "How to Get Written by a Poem: Questions Students Ask a Poet", Orbit: Ideas About Teaching and Learning, Vol. 16, No. 2, 1985, pp. 10–11.
• "The Psalms: Prayer that Poetry Helps Make", Gadfly: A Quarterly Review of English Letters, Vol. 8, No. 2, 1985, pp. 10–23.
• "The Reader as Co-Creator of a Poem: Implications for Classroom Practice", Teacher Education, No. 27, 1985, pp. 15–33.
• "The Demonology of Verse", Philosophical Investigations, Vol. 10, No. 4, 1987, pp. 299–316.
• "Learning Old English: Voices from the Birth of Our Language", Orbit, Vol. 18, No. 4, 1987, pp. 18–19.
• "Meeting the First English Poets: Art as a Step into Literature", Orbit, Vol. 19, No. 1, 1988, pp. 20–21.
• "The Shepherd Psalm: A Shepherd in Need", Wesley Cragg, Laurent Larouche, Gertrud Lewis, Challenging the Conventional, Burlington: Trinity Press, 1989, pp. 216–225.
• "Sacraments of the Small and Simple", review article, Quarry, Vol. 38, No. 3, 1989, pp. 102–105
• "Adam's Place in Nature: Respect or Domination?", Journal of Agricultural Ethics, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1990, pp. 102–113
• "Poetry, Paradox and Gender", review article, Quarry, Vol. 39, No. 4, 1990, pp. 98–100.
• "Poetry, Mysticism and the Indirectness of God", review article, Quarry, Vol. 41, No. 1, 1991, pp. 105–106.
• "Strategies: How To Get Written By A Poem", in Betsy Struthers, Sarah Klassen, Poets in the Classroom, Markham, Ont.: Pembroke Publishers Limited, 1995, pp. 81–87
• "The Tea Ceremony: To Travel Is To Arrive", Koyomizu: Toronto Urasenke Tea Ceremony Society News, No. 6, 1997, p. 2
• "The Tea Ceremony: Deepening a Sense of Beauty", Koyomizu: Toronto Urasenke Tea Ceremony Society News, No. 6, 1997, p. 3
• "Poetry and justice", League of Canadian Poets Newsletter, President's column, June 1998, p. 1
• "The world is made up of poems, not atoms", League of Canadian Poets Newsletter, President's column, September 1998, p. 1
• "League initiatives", League of Canadian Poets Newsletter, President's column, November 1998, p. 2
• "Performing from the soles of your feet", League of Canadian Poets Newsletter, President's column, January 1999, No. 132, p. 1.
• "Poetry against professors", League of Canadian Poets Newsletter, President's column, March 1999, No. 133, pp. 1–2
• "Kosovo and poetry", League of Canadian Poets Newsletter, President's column, May 1999, No. 134, pp. 1–2.
• "A Parliamentary Poet Laureate; and Should We Define Poetry?", League of Canadian Poets Newsletter, President's column, November 1999, pp. 1–2
• "Eye Problems and the Waters of Life", Web Del Sol. Mike Neff ed., Robert Sward guest ed.
• "Ottawa Needs Poetry", Northern Life, 22 December 1999, p. 17
• "Poetry at the Millennium", League of Canadian Poets Newsletter, President's column, January 2000, pp. 1–2
• "See you later, Al", Northern Life, 28 April 2000, p. 8
• "‘Peace/Shalom’ in the Jewish Tradition", featured article, Outlook, Vol. 40, No. 5, Sept./Oct. 2002, 40th Anniversary edition, pp. 5 – 6
• "A Flurry of Hammers: Waging Peace through Poetry – Is it Possible?", in Susan McMaster, Waging Peace: Poetry and Political Action, Ottawa: Penumbra Press, 2002, pp. 129 – 131
• "Creation, Wonder and the Poetry of Job", in Melchior Mbonimpa et al., Mysticism: Select Essays, Sudbury: Editions Glopro, 2002, pp. 70–88
• Presentation on proposed Poet Laureate Bill, Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology, reprinted from Hansard: Debates of Senate in John Metcalf, Canadian Notes and Queries: The Making of the Parliamentary Poet Laureate, No. 62, 2002, pp. 19–20
• "Thales and the Beginnings of Science: Bridging the ‘Two Cultures’ Divide", Canadian Chemical News, pp. 10–11, March 2004

  Published Conference Papers

Short Stories

• "Banking by mirrors", Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 94, No. 2, 1987, pp. 303–308.
• "The Choirmaster", Featured fiction, Cross-Canada Writers' Magazine, Vol. 111, No. 2, 1989, pp. 15, 28-29.
• "A Conspiracy of Grandmothers", Wascana Review, Vol. 25, No. 1, 1990, pp. 32–36.
• "The Banjo Case", Dalhousie Review, Vol. 72, No. 3, 1992, pp. 362–367
• "The Choirmaster", reprinted in L. Steven Bluffs: Northeastern Stories from the Edge, Your Scrivener Press, 2006, pp. 102–113
• "The Camera and the Cobra", Grain Vol. 35, No. 2, Autumn 2007, pp. 24–31
• "Houses that Look for their Keys", Wascana Review, Vol 20, Nos. 1-2, Spring/Fall 2005, pp. 33–40
• "Growing Up under a Table", The Nashwaak Review, Vol. 20/21, No. 1, Spring/Summer2008, pp. 88–96
• "The Camera and the Cobra", anthologized in The PEN/O.Henry Prize Stories 2009, Anchor Books – Random House, 2009, pp. 160–169
• "The Writers on their Work", The PEN/O.Henry Prize Stories 2009, pp. 399–401
• "The House of the Fish Head Soup", Sudbury Living, Fall 2009, pp. 66–68

  Poems

• "Two poems about nothing", The Fiddlehead, Winter 1980, No. 124, p. 96.
• "Settlement in a school of whales", Quarry, 31:4, 1982, pp. 37–38.
• "Sermon of a cricket in an empty bucket", Quarry, 31:4, 1982, p. 39.
• "Commandments of an old man in the park", Antigonish Review, No. 45, Spring 1981, pp. 91–92.
• "Sulphur cloud", Antigonish Review, No. 45, Spring 1981, p. 90.
• "Two prairie sky poems", Wascana Review, 15:2, 1980, pp. 42–43.
• "The rocks eat breakfast", Fiddlehead, No. 130, 1981, p. 17.
• "Poems as the first rivers", Fiddlehead, No. 130, 1981, p. 16.
• "Stella Almeida reads her shopping list", Quarry, 31:1, 1982, p. 15.
• "What a warm night tonight", Antigonish Review, No. 49, 1982, p. 41.
• "The lake that became a hawk", Antigonish Review, No. 49, 1982, p. 40.
• "Tree storms", Canadian Author and Bookman, 57:2, 1982, p. 18.
• "A poem as a question", Canadian Author and Bookman, 57:3, 1982, p. 24.
• "Bath time in Don Mills", Contemporary Verse Two, 6:4, 1982, p. 15.
• "One girl on a bicycle balances a town", Fiddlehead, No. 133, 1982, p. 77.
• "Eight ways of spending an evening on Whitsun Lake", Fiddlehead, No. 133, 1982, p. 75.
• "Elevators", Fiddlehead, No. 133, 1982, p. 76.
• "Pretzels", The Gadfly: A Quarterly Review of English Letters, 5:3, 1982, p. 10.
• "Snow rot", Germination, 6:2, 1982, p. 24.
• "The kite that flew a boy", Germination, 6:2, 1982, p. 25.
• "After thirty years of farming", Queen's Quarterly, 89:4, 1982, p. 783.
• "A fast wind blows", Queen's Quarterly, 89:4, 1982, p. 783.
• "The Bible barn", Queen's Quarterly, 89:4, 1982, p. 784.
• "Thirteenth floor please", Antigonish Review, No. 52, 1983, p. 52.
• "Spring cookies", The Gadfly: A Quarterly Review of English Letters, Vol. 6, Nos. 2-3, May–August 1983, p. 42.
• "Chronicle of a poem's trek into new lands", The Gadfly: A Quarterly Review of English Letters, Vol. 6, Nos. 2-3, May–August 1983, pp. 42–44.
• "Backwards", The Gadfly: A Quarterly Review of English Letters, Vol. 6, Nos. 2-3, May–August 1983, p. 44.
• "Pukka pyjamas", The Gadfly: A Quarterly Review Of English Letters, Vol. 6, Nos. 2-3, May–August 1983, p. 45.
• "Greenwich heart time", The Gadfly: A Quarterly Review of English Letters, Vol. 6, Nos. 2-3, May–August 1983, p. 46.
• "Wolf call north of Timmins", Prism International, Vol. 22, No. 1, Fall 1983, p. 68.
• "A history of loons", Prism International, Vol. 22, No. 1, Fall 1983, p. 70.
• "Grandma's preserves", Prism International, Vol. 22, No. 1, Fall 1983, p. 69.
• "The mound of the Viking chocolate bars", West Coast Review, Vol. 18, No. 2, October 1983, pp. 43–44.
• "A dream's top headlines", West Coast Review, Vol. 18, No. 2, October 1983, p. 46.
• "Three ways of following snowshoe tracks", Antigonish Review, No. 55, Autumn 1983, p. 11.
• "Dry cantors", Antigonish Review, No. 55, Autumn 1983, p. 12.
• "Axe", Antigonish Review, No. 55, Autumn 1983, p. 12.
• "A poem's first remembered experience of a reader", Quarry, Vol. 32, No. 4, Autumn 1983, special issue on Creative Reflections, pp. 55–56.
• "An invasion of goats", Waves, Vol. 12, No. 4, Spring 1984, p. 57.
• "Gulls", Wascana Review, Vol. 18, No. 1, Spring 1984, pp. 54–55.
• "Elegy for a sailing man", Contemporary Verse Two, Vol. 8, No. 1, May 1984, p. 16.
• "Letter to a friend", Event: Journal of the Contemporary Arts, Vol. 13, No. 1, p. 95.
• "Several excuses for having stayed", Quarry, Vol. 33, No. 3, Summer 1984, p. 40.
• "After her stroke", Quarry, Vol. 33, No. 3, Summer 1984, pp. 40–42.
• "The hound on the hill", Gadfly: A Quarterly Review of English Letters, Vol. 7, Nos. 3-4, August–November, 1984, pp. 84–85.
• "Bomb sites", Gadfly: A Quarterly Review of English Letters, Vol. 7, Nos. 3-4, August–November, 1984, pp. 85–86.
• "Poem of Probabilities", Canadian Literature, No. 103, 1984, p. 26.
• "Women at Windows", Waves, Vol. 13, No. 4, 1985, p. 84.
• "Evening on a Half-Mile Lake", Malahat Review, No. 71, 1985, pp. 58–59.
• "The Ultramarine Bicep", Arc: A Magazine of Poetry and Poetry Criticism, No. 10, 1983, p. 46.
• "Spring Ponds", Arc, No. 10, 1983, p. 46.
• "Ice Eggs", Arc, No. 10, 1983, p. 47.
• "When Mirrors Run Dry", Arc, No. 10, 1983, p. 47.
• "Song of Ghengis the Cat", Arc, No. 10, 1983, p. 48.
• "The World's Last Poem", Antigonish Review, No. 60, 1985, p. 111.
• "C.N. Tower: Revolving Restaurant", Antigonish Review, No. 60, 1985, p. 112.
• "Letter to a Friend", reprinted and anthologized in Anthology of Magazine Verse And Yearbook Of American Poetry, ed. A.F. Pater, Monitor Books: Beverley Hills, 1985, pp. 333–334.
• "The Instinct of Hydrangeas", West Coast Review, Vol. 20, No. 2, 1985, p. 40.
• "The Sea Cliff of Summer", West Coast Review, Vol. 20, No. 2, 1985, p. 41.
• "Wolf Call North of Timmins", reprinted and anthologized in Prism International: Twenty-Five Years in Retrospect, edited by John Schoutsen and St. John Simmons, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1984, p. 196.
• "To My Wife of Twenty Years", American Poetry Anthology, ed. John Frost, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1986, p. 164.
• "Double Burial under Glass ", Wascana Review, Vol. 20, No. 1, 1985, pp. 47–48.
• "Schubert's Lessons for Clarinet in an Old Trapper's Hut", Quarry, Vol. 35, No. 1, 1986, pp. 56–57.
• "Tree Felling", Gadfly, Vol. 8, No. 3, 1986, p. 22.
• "Night Flying", Prism International, Vol. 24, No. 4, 1986, pp. 7–8.
• "The Robberies", Prism International, Vol. 24, No. 4, 1986, p. 9.
• "The Sound of One Hand Clapping", Prism International, Vol. 24, No. 4, p. 10.
• "The Girl in the Rainbow Skirt", Words of Praise: A Treasury of Religious and Inspirational Poetry, Vol. 2, ed. John Frost, 1986, p. 178.
• "Message transmitted from a distant constellation", Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 93, No. 2, Summer 1986, pp. 337–338.
• "Please write to me in this poem", The Malahat Review, No. 77, 1986, p. 77.
• "Uncle Lennie's third proof of the existence of a question", The Malahat Review, No. 77, 1986, p. 78.
• "The tea ceremony", Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, Vol. 18, No. 1, 1987, p. 16.
• "The world's last poem", reprinted in Wesley Cragg, Contemporary Moral Issues, 2nd ed., Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd, 1987, p. 477.
• "Message transmitted from a distant constellation", reprinted in Wesley Cragg, Contemporary Moral Issues, 2nd ed., Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd., 1987, pp. 550–551.
• "The Mandarin of Morning", Canadian Forum, Vol. 67, No. 768, 1987, p. 5.
• "Incident at London International Airport", Poetry Toronto, No. 134, 1987, pp. 18–19.
• "Lazarus raised in a canoe", Poetry Toronto, No. 134, 1987, p. 20.
• "Losing our shadows", Poetry Toronto, No. 134, 1987, p. 21.
• "Should I complain to the movers?", Poetry Toronto, No. 134, 1987, p. 22
• "Trial by ravens", Poetry Toronto, No. 134, 1987, p. 23
• "Deep-water fugue", Poetry Toronto, No. 134, 1987, pp. 24–25.
• "Lake herding", Poetry Toronto, No. 134, 1987, pp. 24–25.
• "Waiting and waiting for her in the park", West Coast Review, Vol. 21, No. 2, 1986, p. 38.
• "A rare gramophone recording", Prism International, Vol. 25, No. 4, 1987, p. 18.
• "The shaking", Prism International, Vol. 25, No. 4, 1987, p. 19.
• "One day", Prism International, Vol. 25, No. 4, 1987, p. 20.
• "Evening", Canadian Author and Bookman, Vol. 62, No. 4, 1987, p. 23.
• "This is my mother's camera", Canadian Literature, No. 113-114, 1987, p. 167.
• "Photo of an angry man", West Coast Review, Vol. 21, No. 3, 1987, p. 35.
• "A dream", West Coast Review, Vol. 21, No. 3, 1987, p. 36.
• "Cleaning the brasses", Wascana Review, Vol. 22, No. 1, 1987, pp. 65–66.
• "Voyages of a garden shed", Quarry, Vol. 36, No. 4, 1987, pp. 57–58.
• "The coppery weathercock", Antigonish Review, Nos. 69-70, 1987, p. 200.
• "Family discussion", Capilano Review, No. 45, 1988, p. 18.
• "Please write to me in this poem", in Mirror Images, edited by John McInnes, Scarborough: Nelson Canada, 1988, p. 72.
• "One Day", Cragg et al., Challenging the Conventional, Burlington: Trinity Press, 1989, p. 71.
• "Cleaning the Brasses", ibid., p. 95.
• "Trying to Think of the Unthinkable", ibid., p. 167.
• "Night Thoughts", Malahat Review, No. 86, 1989, p. 91.
• "We Are All of Us Amazing to Be Here", Quarry, Vol. 30, No. 1, 1989, p. 28.
• "I Couldn't Count the Ways", Quarry, Vol. 30, No. 1, 1989, p. 29.
• "Trying to Think of the Unthinkable", Wascana Review, Vol. 23, No. 1, p. 32.
• "On Chagall's 'The Falling Angel'", Northward Journal, No. 46, 1989, p. 22.
• "On the Retirement of a Professor of English", MuseLetter, League of Canadian Poets, No. 70, 1989, pp. 20–21.
• "Betting on History", Dandelion, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 21–22.
• "Abstract Art", Dandelion, Vol. 16, No. 2, p. 23.
• "The Street of Gold", Dandelion, Vol. 16, No. 2, p. 24.
• "A Creation Story", The Antigonish Review, No. 79, 1989, p. 92.
• "Ageing Gracefully", The Antigonish Review, No. 79, 1989, p. 93.
• "Old Man in an Armchair", Malahat Review, No. 90, 1990. pp. 66–67.
• "On the Retirement of a Professor of English", reprinted in Museletter, No. 75, 1990, pp. 17–18.
• "The Appliances Delivery-Man", Event, Vol. 19, No. 1, 1990, p. 84.
• "Heavy Rain", Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, Vol. 21, No. 2, 1990, p. 91.
• "Maxims for Marriages", The Antigonish Review, Vol. 81-82, Spring-Summer 1990, p. 10.
• "Several excuses for having stayed", reprinted and anthologized in Roger Gower, Past into Present: An Anthology of British and American Literature, Harlow, UK: Longman, 1990, p. 456.
• "The University of Silence", anthologized in More Garden Varieties Two: An Anthology of Poetry, introduction by Patrick Lane, Stratford and Toronto: Mercury Press and the League of Canadian Poets, 1990, p. 82.
• "The House Burning", Canadian Author and Bookman, Vol. 66, No. 2, 1991, p. 13.
• "Geraniums", University of Windsor Review, Vol. 23, No. 2, p. 49, 1990.
• "At the Edges", University of Windsor Review, Vol. 23, No. 2, p. 50, 1990.
• "Vinnie", Canadian Literature, No. 128, p. 89, 1991.
• "The Artist as a Still Life", The Fiddlehead, No. 168, 1991, p. 76
• "Messengers", The Fiddlehead, No. 168, 1991, p. 77.
• "Means and ends", The Malahat Review, No. 97, p. 80, 1991.
• "Parting", The Malahat Review, No. 97, p. 81, 1991
• "Letter read in a storm", Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, Vol. 22, No. 3, 1991, p. 104.
• "Bell-ringing at evening", Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, Vol. 23, No. 2, 1992, p. 108.
• "Still life: iced water and an orange at Jericho", The Antigonish Review, No. 90, 1992, p. 136.
• "Heritage", Canadian Literature, No. 137, 1993., p. 7
• "A message from the Norns to the twenty-first century", Fiddlehead, No. 175, 1993, p. 31
• "The presence of absences", Malahat Review, No. 102, 1993, p. 99
• "Preparations for a journey", Malahat Review, No. 102, 1993, pp. 100–101
• "In the Kosher Chow Mein Restaurant", The Fiddlehead, No. 179, 1994, pp. 13–14
• "The Strong Wind", Wascana Review, Vol. 28, No. 2, p. 17, 1994
• "A Desperate Woman", Poetry Canada Review, Vol. 14, No. 4, 1994, p. 25
• "My Lady of Journeys", Poetry Canada Review, Vol. 14, No. 4, 1994, p. 25
• "Marriages of Opposites", Poetry Canada Review, Vol. 14, No. 4, 1994, p. 25
• "Where Our Voices Go", Poetry Canada Review, Vol. 14, No. 4, 1994, p. 25
• "The Word-Umbrella", Quarry, Vol. 43, No. 4, 1995, p. 128
• "Chicken-Plucking", Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 102, No. 2, 1995, pp. 508–9
• "Reversals", Windsor Review: A Journal of the Arts, Vol. 28, No. 1, 1995, p. 32
• "Wind-Bells Can Overcome Jealousy", Windsor Review: A Journal of the Arts, Vol. 28, No. 1, 1995, p. 33
• "Trying to Balance the Books", in The Garden of Life, Owings Mills: Watermark Press, 1995, p. 620
• "Wedding in the Garden", Malahat Review, No. 112, 1995, pp. 77–79
• "Borders", Outlook, Vol. 34, No. 1, 1996, p. 25
• "Phrases of the moon", Windsor Review, Vol. 20, No. 1, 1996, p. 42
• "My mother", Windsor Review, Vol. 20, No. 1, 1996, p. 43
• "Morning words on the farm", Windsor Review, Vol. 20, No. 1, 1996, p. 44
• "Superstitions", Windsor Review, Vol. 20, No. 1, 1996, p. 45
• "Tawatinaw valley farm", Antigonish Review, No. 106, 1996, p. 114
• "The fox-fur", Antigonish Review, No. 106, 1996, pp. 115–116
• "Blessings on a tree", Parchment: Contemporary Canadian Jewish Writing, No. 5, 1996–97, pp. 39–40
• "Circumstantial evidence of the visitation of angels", Arc, No. 37, 1996, p. 37
• "One song as a cycle", Waking Ordeals, Guelph: Agram Press, 1997, p. 130
• "Symbiosis", Waking Ordeals, Guelph: Agram Press, 1997, pp. 131–132
• "The house-burning", reprinted in Directions, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1997, p. 12
• "Hopes for the Third Millennium", Spring-Fever, Your Scrivener Press/League of Canadian Poets, 1997, p. 36
• "Life as a kitchen", Waking Ordeals, No. 2, 1997
• "Vagaries of memory at mid-winter", Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, Volume 28, No. 2, 1997, pp. 115–116
• "A Defence of Prose-Poetry", Outlook, Vol 34, No. 7, 1997, p. 24
• "Life as a kitchen", Parchment: Contemporary Canadian Jewish Writing, No. 6, 1998, p. 126
• "Guitar Songs: Rondels", Licking Honey Off A Thorn, 1998, p. 13
• "The psychiatry of socks", Antigonish Review, No. 112, 1998, p. 54
• "Circumstantial evidence of the visitation of angels", We All Begin in a Little Magazine: Arc and the Promise of Canada’s Poets 1978-1988, Arc Poetry Society/Carleton University Press, 1988, p. 112
• "The Threshold Stone", Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, University of Calgary, p. 129
• "How Horses Pray", Sing for the Inner Ear: The Sandberg-Livesay Award, UnMon America, 1998, p. 64
• "Describing the silence that suddenly falls on a crowded room, Fiddlehead, Summer 1998, No. 196, pp. 94-95
• "Plot for a vampirella novel: found poem", Fiddlehead, Summer 1998, No. 196, P. 95
• "The affair of an end", Like Lemmings, Summer 1998, Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 12
• "The disappearance of statues ", Summer 1998, Like Lemmings, Vol 1, No. 1, p. 39
• "Before and after", Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, Vol. 30, No. 1, p. 104, January 1999, p. 104
• "A gathering claustrophobia: Vermeer’s Dutch interiors of the self, Arachne: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Humanities, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1998, pp. 78-80
• "Paint jobs", Parchment: Contemporary Canadian Jewish Writing, No. 8, 1999-2000, p. 160
• "Babushka in the orchard", The Antigonish Review, No. 119, Autumn 1999, p. 64
• "Underground blasting in a mining town", Like Lemmings, Vol. 2, No. 1, Winter 2000, p. 28
• "The more things change", Pottersfield Portfolio, Vol 20, No. 2, p. 33
• "Breaking a plate", Arc: Canada’s National Poetry Magazine, No. 44, Summer 2000, p. 71
• "Two everyday ways of defining gravity", The Fiddlehead, No. 204, Summer 2000, p. 97
• "Farming with haiku", The Fiddlehead, No. 204, Summer 2000, p. 98
• "Snapshots of New Orleans, Windsor Review, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 16-17
• "Paint-jobs", Windsor Review, Vol. 32, No. 2, p. 18
• "Hopes for the third millennium", Northern Life, 3 January 2001, p. 14
• "Absences", Convergence: Poets for Peace, a boxed set of 100 poems printed on single vellum illustrated sheets. Peace Maker's Edition, Collector's Edition, Peace on the Streets Edition, Line By Line: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry, Victoria: Ekstasis Editions, 2002, p. 81
• "Absences", in Susan McMaster, Waging Peace: Poetry and Political Action, Ottawa: Penumbra Press, 2002, p. 82
• "On Chagall’s ‘The Falling Angel’", in Roger Bell, Larger than Life, Windsor: Black Moss Press, 2002, p. 61
• "Note found in an insane asylum", in Roger Bell, Larger than Life, Windsor: Black Moss Press, 2002, p. 107
• "Prayer-shawls", Parchment: Contemporary Canadian Jewish Writing, No. 11, 2002–2003, pp. 177–8
• "An appointment with the beautiful lady optician", Dalhousie Review, Vol. 82, No. 2, Summer 2002, p. 301
• "Funeral Cortege", Wascana Review, 36:2, Fall 2001, p. 21
• "Doing Things Two at a Time", The Prairie Journal, No. 40, 2003, p. 34
• "High Noon", The Prairie Journal, No. 40, 2003, p. 34
• "Evening on the Farm", Grain Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 4, Spring 2004, p. 13
• "Weather Forecasts for Your Body", The Fiddlehead, No. 215, 2003, p. 50
• "Our Beduin Egg Lady ", Queens Quarterly, Vol 111, No. 1, Spring 2004, p. 157
• "Summer Solstice", Canadian Literature, No. 18, Spring 2004, pp. 51–54
• "Climbing to the Long-Vanished Ruins of a Taoist Monastery, The Prairie Journal, No. 43, 2004, p. 42
• "Placing Things", The Prairie Journal, No. 43, 2004, p. 43
• "The Three Ages of Hair", Words in Edgeways, Spring 2005, www.edgewaysbooks.com
• "Swimming with a Hammer-Head Shark", Words in Edgeways, Spring 2005,
• "Five Signs that You’re Not the Reincarnation of Someone Famous", Words in Edgeways, Spring 2005,
• "In Search of Continuity", Words in Edgeways, Spring 2005,
• "The Sunken Kitchen", And No-one Knows the Blood We Share: Living Archives of the Feminist Caucus of the League of Canadian Poets, 2005, p. 5
• "The Village of the Blind ", Canadian Literature, No. 185, Summer 2005, p. 91
• "What Your Body Says", Fiddlehead No. 225, Autumn 2005, p. 43
• "The Future: An Octopus Waving", Grain, Autumn 2005, p. 112
• "Plough-lines", Arc, Summer 2006, p. 89
• "Love in the kitchen", Dalhousie Review, Vol. 66 No. 2, Summer 2006, p. 291
• "Time’s optics", Queen's Quarterly, Vol 13 No. 3, Fall 2006, p. 479
• "The bicycle of love", Words in Edgeways, Issue 18/19, Spring 2007, p. 1
• "Copse at Cookham Dean", Words in Edgeways, Issue 18/19, Spring 2007, p. 2
• "Lament on a fire-bombing", Words in Edgeways, Issue 18/19, Spring 2007, pp. 2–3
• "Saving my father’s life", Words in Edgeways, Issue 18/19, Spring 2007, p. 4
• "Shadows", Canadian Literature No. 192, Spring 2007, p. 44
• "The Moon and I at Lunenberg", Contemporary Verse Two 22:4, Spring 2007, p. 40
• "A Widow on Her Eighty-Third Birthday", in Katerina Fretwell, Arms Like Ladders: The Eloquent She, League of Canadian Poets, 2007, p. 76
• "Gold Burial Mask from Mycenae", Descant 38:2, Summer 2007, p. 61
• "The Last Day of the Twentieth Century", The Prairie Journal, No. 48, p. 32
• "A Fire-Festival", Canadian Literature Vol. 195, Winter 2007, p. 49
• "The Bicycle of Love", Prairie Journal No. 50, 2008, p. 15
• "Lament on a Fire-Bombing", Prairie Journal No. 50, 2008, pp. 16–17
• "Small Sounds", Prairie Journal No. 50, 2008, p. 17
• "The Long Hokey-Cokey", Prairie Journal No. 50, 2008, pp. 18–19
• "Summer Solstice", in Canadian Literature Poets Archives, together with a short author's critical analysis, on-line at CanLit Poets , Fall 2008
• "The Village of the Blind", in Canadian Literature Poets Archives, on-line, together with short author's critical analysis, at CanLit Poets, Fall 2008
• "Heritage", in Canadian Literature Poets Archives, on-line, together with short author's critical analysis, at CanLit Poets, Fall 2008
• "Shadows", in Canadian Literature Poets Archives, on-line, together with short author's critical analysis, at CanLit Poets, Fall 2008
• "Vinnie", in Canadian Literature Poets Archives, on-line, together with short author's critical analysis, at CanLit Poets, Fall 2008
• "This is my Mother’s Camera", in Canadian Literature Poets Archives, on-line, together with short author's critical analysis, at CanLit Poets, Fall 2008
• "Poem of Probabilities", in Canadian Literature Poets Archives, on-line, together with short author's critical analysis, at CanLit Poets, Fall 2008
• "Farming on Water", in Canadian Literature Poets Archives, on-line, together with short author's critical analysis, at CanLit Poets, Fall 2008
• "My Father’s Laugh", "Canadian Literature" issue #33 of Sugar Mule e-magazine, Fall 2009
• "Turning the Tables", "Canadian Literature" issue #33 of Sugar Mule e-magazine, Fall 2009
• "Constants", "Canadian Literature" issue #33 of Sugar Mule e-magazine, Fall 2009
• "Language Learning", "Canadian Literature" issue #33 of Sugar Mule e-magazine, Fall 2009
• "Indiscretions in the Garden", "Canadian Literature" issue #33 of Sugar Mule e-magazine, Fall 2009
• "Three Transformations My Wife Can Make", "Canadian Literature" issue #33 of Sugar Mule e-magazine, Fall 2009
• "Your Body", Prairie Journal Issue #52, p. 6, 2009
• "Sturgeon Petroglyph", in Madhur Anand, Adam Dickinson, Regreen: New Canadian Ecological Poetry, Your Scrivener Press, 2009, p. 117
• "On Getting Yourself Conceived", in Madhur Anand, Adam Dickinson, Regreen: New Canadian Ecological Poetry, Your Scrivener Press, 2009, p. 118-119

  Translations

• "Maxims", translated from the Anglo-Saxon, West Coast Review, Vol. 21, No. 3, 1987, p. 37.
• "The Ship of Death", translated from the Anglo-Saxon, Orbit, Vol. 18, No. 4, 1987, p. 19.
• "The Dream of the Rood", translated from the Anglo-Saxon, Antigonish Review, Nos. 69-70, 1987, p. 201.
• "The Seafarer", translated from the Anglo-Saxon, The Antigonish Review, No. 79, 1989, p. 94.
• "The Ruin", translated from the Anglo-Saxon, The Antigonish Review, No. 79, 1989, p. 95.
• "Caedmon's Hymn", translated from the Anglo-Saxon, The Poetry of Prayer, Brynmill Press, Norfolk, 1994, p. 55
• "The Wanderer", ll. 73-87, translated from the Anglo-Saxon, Waking Ordeals, 1997, p. 71

  Book reviews

• Review of T. R. Miles, Religious Experience, Dialogue Vol. 12, No.4, 1973, p. 732.
• Review of Robin Skelton, Openings, Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1988, pp. 215–216.
• Review of Milton Acorn, Hundred Proof Earth, Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1988, pp. 186–187.
• Review of Heather Cadsby, Decoys, Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1989, pp. 213–214.
• Review of Richard Stevenson, Horizontal Hotel, Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1989, p. 237.
• Review of Kenneth Sherman, Jackson's Point, Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1989, pp. 233–234.
• Review of Barbara Carey, The Year in Pictures, Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1989, pp. 214–215.
• Review of Joseph Sherman, Shaping the Flame: Imagining Wallenberg, Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1989, p. 233.
• Review of Elizabeth Waterston, Ian Easterbrook, Bernard Katz and Kathleen Scott, The Travellers: Canada to 1900. An Annotated Bibliography of Works Published in English from 1577, Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1989, p. 5.
• Review of R. J. Clark, Stepping up to the Station, Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1990, pp. 211–212.
• Review of Jeff Derksen, Down Time, Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1990, p. 214.
• Review of Ken Mitchell, Witches and Idiots, Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1990, p. 226.
• Review of Glen Sorestad, Air Canada Owls: Travel Poems, Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1990, p. 234.
• Review of Patrick O'Connell, Hoping for Angels, Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1990, pp. 229–30.
• Review of Stephen Scobie, Remains, Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1990, pp. 233–234.
• Review of Richard Lush, No Solid Ground, Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1991, p. 212
• Review of Glen Sorestad, West into Night, Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1991, p. 223
• Review of Frank Davey, Popular Narratives, Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1991, pp. 196–97
• Review of Fred Wah, So Far, Canadian Book Review Annual, 1991, pp. 228–29
• Review of Dennis Cooley, This Only Home, Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1992, pp. 201–202
• Review of Vic Elias, Reflected Scenery from Where My Eyes Should Be, Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1992, p. 205
• Review of Michael Harris, New and Selected Poems, Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1992, p. 209
• Review of Raymond Souster, Riding the Long Black Horse, Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1993, p. 3232
• Review of Richard Outram, Mogul Recollected, Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1993, p. 3212
• Review of Seymour Mayne, Killing Time, Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1993, pp. 3197 – 3198
• Review of Dan Jalowica, Port Ebony, Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1993, pp. 3185 – 3186
• Review of Wayne Keon, Storm Dancer, Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1993, p. 3186
• Review of Brian Brett, Poems, New and Selected, Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1994, pp. 200–201
• Review of Anne Campbell, Angel Wings All Over, Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1994, p. 202
• Review of Victor Coleman, Lapsed WASP: Poems 1978-89, Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1994, p. 204
• Review of Michael Holmes, James I Wanted to Ask You, Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1994, p. 209
• Review of David Lawson, Zhongguo, Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1994, p. 211
• Review of John Pass, Radical Innocence, Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1994, p. 217
• Review of James Deahl, Under the Watchful Eye: Poetry and Discourse, in Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1995, p. 209
• Review of Douglas Fetherling, Selected Poems, in Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Piere Publishing, 1995, p. 211
• Review of Cherie Geauvreau, Even the Fawn has Wings, in Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1995, p. 213
• Review of Richard Greene, Republic of Solitude: Poems 1984-1994, in Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1995, p. 214
• Review of Tom Marshall, Some Impossible Heaven, in Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1995, pp. 221–222
• Review of David McFadden, There'll Be Another, in Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto:........Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1995, p. 223
• Review of Elizabeth St Jacques, Around the Tree of Light: A Collection of Korean Sijo and Dance of Light, in Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1995, p. 231
• Review of Kwame Dawes, Resisting the Anomie, in Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1996, p. 199
• Review of Paulette Jiles, Flying Lessons: Selected Poems, in Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1996, pp. 204–205
• Review of Kenn Johnson, Loon Echo, in Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1996, p. 205
• Review of Pamela Mordecai, De Man: A Performance Poem, in Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1996, p. 208
• Review of Fraser Sutherland, Jonestown, in Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1996, p. 216
• Review of Bruce Whiteman, Visible Stars: New and Selected Poems, in Canadian Book Review Annual, Toronto: Simon and Pierre Publishing, 1996, p. 220