I hesitated. For weeks.
Then I was ready, it seemed,
in the middle of a hurricane,
and my mother made her trip to St. Mary’s
in a motor launch.
—Bert Almon, from “Hesitation before Birth”
A Ghost in Waterloo Station
(Brindle & Glass, 2007)
Bert takes his time. He plays the waiting game with his poems, just as he did with his mother [...]
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Hesitation before Bert
Posted in News, tagged A Ghost in Waterloo Station, Alberta Literary Awards, Annual Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts, Bert Almon, Brindle & Glass, City of Edmonton Book Prize, Hesitation before Birth, Jessica Hiemstra-van der Horst, Overexposure, Stephan G. Stephansson Award, The Shot Tower, Waiting for the Gulf Stream, Writer's Guild of Alberta on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
8.1 Bert Almon
Posted in Reading, tagged Bert Almon, Jessica Hiemstra-van der Horst, Waiting for the Gulf Stream on September 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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