the rogue is democracy
robed in blue
rogue parliament
in a cornflower coup
he tears up his rouge constitution
ambushes
with statues speeches winks
and a resounding slap
between hill and valley
prorogues an echoing cry
cowering
canada’s red cheeks bleed
blue
like all cheeks that bleed
without words
wordless
the wife-battering bruise
bleed blue oblivion
in the rough small man on the hill
happy as the bluest harp
*© Rouge Stimulus. Stephen Brockwell and Stuart Ross eds. ( Mansfield Press, 2010)
Amatoritsero Ede is a peripatetic, internationally award-winning poet and ex-Hindu monk born in Nigeria. He has been a Book Editor, was Editor-in-Chief of Sentinel Online Poetry Journal from 2005-2007, and Writer-in-Residence at Carleton University’s English Department from 2005-2006, where he is now a Doctoral Candidate.
April 6th, 2010
Griffin Poetry prize shortlist announced
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April, 2010
George Elliot Clarke's I & I (Goose Lane Editions, 2009) nominated for the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction.
December, 2009
MTLS receives Canada Council for the Arts’ funding and begins to disburse honoraria beginning with issue 5
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