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Poetry Seminar

Poetry Seminar. Matt Demmings. John Newlove. Born June 13, 1938 in Regina Saskatchewan. Newlove was raised in various small Saskatchewan towns. He attended the University of Saskatoon for one year. He then embarked on a Canada-wide tour.

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Poetry Seminar

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  1. Poetry Seminar Matt Demmings

  2. John Newlove • Born June 13, 1938 in Regina Saskatchewan. • Newlove was raised in various small Saskatchewan towns. • He attended the University of Saskatoon for one year. • He then embarked on a Canada-wide tour. • Between 1970 and 1974 he occupied a position as an editor in Toronto. • He was also a writer-in-residence at the University of Toronto, and other less noteable university in the province. • Newlove won the Governor General’s for poetry in 1972.

  3. Poem With Ravens And is not solitary or a gesture And with an understanding of light And with pines and pines Refusing to leave home, One bowing gracefully like a geisha And with comfortable immensities And with a quite pride kidding the outsiders Gently and gently and gently and gently And with the pines and with pride And, yes, with snow we must mention snow Where color its seems to a type of wealth And with danger and with pines And with serenity and calmness And with pines and with pines and with pines And with humans, always with humans Dease Lake to Watson Lake November 1985 And with a penetrating silence And with solitary gestures, An oil drum among the pines, And with good gravel roads And with an understanding of itself That is not to be understood be understood And with pines And with cheeseburgers And with mock log cabins And with real ones And with an acceptance of the inside That is to be understood And is not solitary or a gesture And with an understanding of light

  4. Dream The long figure leans in the snow A rifle is stuck beside him One hand is on it. He waits an approaching figure. He will decide, when it comes, To kill or to run. Its the white center of the world His reason squats in.

  5. The Weather I'd like to live a slower life.The weather gets in my wordsand I want them dry. Line after linewrites itself on my face, not a graceof age but wrinkled humour. I laughmore than I should or morethan anyone should. This is good.But guess again. Everyone leans, eachon each other. This is a lifewithout an image. But onlybecause nothing does much morethan just resemble. Do the shamansdo what they say they do, dancing?This is epistemology.This is guesswork, this is love,this is giving up gorgeousness to please you,you beautiful dead to be. God blessthe weather and the words. Any words. Any weather.And where or whom. I'd never taken count before.I wish I had. And thenI did. And here

  6. Why Do You Hate Me • So you live of the sea;and I am the dry acrid land.You have the sweet fish swimmingand dull mannerly grain grows in me.Your blood shines in curving darts;I grow in calculated rows.So I say I love you,and you say, Why do you hate me?I speak in a foreign language.You don't know what I say.

  7. Discussion Questions 1.The Author writes this poem referring to a “you” who or what do you think “you” represents? 2. What is the significance of this poem? 3. From this poem can you clearly see the Authors love for nature. 4. Do you think Newloves style is unique or is he just another one of those Canadian poets who seems to write about the outdoors

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