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The Ogre

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Format: Chapbook

Size: 5 ½ x 8 ½

Pages: 28

The Ogre

by Phil Hall

Phil Hall has lived in Windsor, Vancouver and Toronto, and now lives near Perth, Ontario.  

In 2011 he won Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry in English for his collection of essay-poems, Killdeer, which also won Ontario’s Trillium Book Award.

He has been writer-in-residence at Sage Hill Writing Experience (Saskatchewan), Berton House (Dawson City, Yukon), Queen’s University, University of Ottawa, and University of New Brunswick.

While in Vancouver, he was a member of the Vancouver Industrial Writers Union, and the Men Against Rape Collective.

He is the founder of Flat Singles Press, and of The Page Lectures at Queen’s University.

In 2015, Wilfrid Laurier University Press published Guthrie Clothing: The Poetry of Phil Hall—A Selected Collage.

Most recently, Pedlar Press has published Niagara & Government (2020), and Beautiful Outlaw Press has published Toward A Blacker Ardour (2021).

 

Waking

 

 Revived     or revised      blugh

 

I am always walking through a lost city

 alone     the day after     a writers’ festival

 

unpublished     pedantic     a mutterer

 

 it is early     grille gates are down & locked     the legends

have returned to their islands     remaindered    

 

 between the cartoon     & the operation

 

my dreams     agitate     the nitrates    

 I coordinate     these sustaining     routines by

 

but sleep is also     a stall     cud     hobble

 pasture     loading ramp     & bell

 

using      what I forget     I dreamt

 or jokes      I compose in my head     half awake

 

I wander     & am told to myself     as gossip

 

 I pick up     & read     bits of celebratory     litter

 

a fossilized fiddle     hopium     Dusseldorf

 

 décolleté     fuller’s teasel     Coughka

 

the really good books     I carried     got wrecked

 Tremor     Zagajewski     1987    

 

a painting     of the fight     with the angel     on its cover

 

 I thought Zagajewski     raw     & infectious then

a translation     even so     it got to me

 

 too bad how     in recent books    he sounds like     tenured nostalgia

a B-side Miłosz

 

 is this change     him     or me

 

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