E Y E W E A R, THE BLOG - FREEDOM MEANS BEING UNAFRAID TO WRITE WHAT YOU THINK

Catherine Graham, one of Canada's finest poets Eyewear is very honoured to publish these four new poems by Catherine Graham , who I think is one of Canada's best poets born since 1960.  She made the selection for my Selected Poems , due out in 2014.  She has been writing during her recent treatment for cancer, and these poems represent her at her best. Her most recent collection will be published this fall, Her Red Hair Rises with the Wings of Insects from the excellent press Wolsak and Wynn; they make beautiful-looking books. MRI Slide in like a deli-cut of meat, be domed by a crazed traffic of hellish sounds; despite the lend of (useless) headphones, dense metal filings of noise worm their way in like tics to melt your mental brain pan. No centre of pain to repel the whipped sensation; just bombs of clangs with gears and charging cracks and… silence— till it gears again. to see cell...