On CKUT (McGill Campus Radio) this week on Monday and at the launch for the Veg magazine yesterday, I read some magical poems I composed recently. One was inspired by Gwendolyn MacEwen and John Dee, the other was an elimination of James Frazer's The Golden Bough, and the last was a pantoum, a fabulously musical …
Tag: eliminations
Elegant Eliminations
An elimination is a poetic form where you don't write the words. You erase them. Take any stanza or paragraph with a rich, evocative vocabulary. I for example chose a few pages from James Frazer's classic work of anthropology The Golden Bough. Any other kind of text can fit just as well as any other--the …
Matthew Rettino 