
Murmuration
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When John Baglow's partner Marianne MacKinnon died in 2006, he decided to assemble a new collection of poems in her memory. No one else knew of what proved to be a slow-moving ambition, but a member of the family mentioned one evening that Marianne had appeared in a dream, saying, "Tell John to finish my book." After that, what choice did he have?
In a famous photograph by James Crombie, a murmuration of starlings takes, for a magical moment, the shape of a giant bird. This is the metaphor that best describes the collection: individual poems moving together in liquid formation, arcing and swooping as they will, and for perhaps just a singular moment assuming the outline of the author, helplessly ever-changing. Some of these poems, inspired by love, grief, and wonder, have been tucked away for years; others are freshly written. All here find their place.
There is no narrative in Murmuration, no chronology. Nor are the many personal remembrances and representations in the book confined to one person. Nevertheless, together they are one way of seeing, one way of being. Marianne would approve.
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"In a famous photograph by James Crombie, a murmuration of starlings takes, for a magical moment, the shape of a giant bird. This is the metaphor that best describes the collection: individual poems moving together in liquid formation, arcing and swooping as they will, and for perhaps just a singular moment assuming the outline of the author, helplessly ever-changing. Some of these poems, inspired by love, grief, and wonder, have been tucked away for years; others are freshly written. All here find their place." CBC BooksMore details
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- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Drydock
- M.M.
- In the beginning
- Gambler
- That winter
- Three shadows
- Six years
- Nick
- Leave-taking
- A.A.
- Raree-show
- 71
- P.C.
- She wanted
- Marianne
- Christmas
- Gamma
- Falling
- Scarab
- R.W.
- Solstice 2021
- End of year sijo
- Years
- Staying awake
- Fauna
- Green Shadows
- Ice Age
- Lightfall
- October/Marianne
- Deceit
- The missing
- Encounter
- Riddles
- How to ignore Marianne
- Requiem/Letter
- Dacre
- Memory
- Ten years in
- Hard rain
- Madwoman to lover
- Suicide
- Wandering Jew
- Resurrection
- I can tell you now
- Winter solstice 2020
- Turning
- Envoi
- Translations
- Patrick spens
- "I am of ireland"
- Daemon lover
- Twa corbies
- Unquiet grave
- Robin hood
- Edward, edward
- Jolly good ale
- Lord randall
- True thomas
- Night journey
- Flowers
- Night journey
- Quarter-sessions
- Possession
- Return trip
- Hiroshima mon amour
- Goodbye
- 12 parables
- The rock
- The clock
- The mirrors
- The book
- The scissors
- The waves
- The ring
- The masks
- The river
- The winds
- The fish
- The Task
- Through a red lens
- Private life
- Nailed to the moon
- "Kennebunkport, Maine"
- Millennium
- Specialist
- Music in the streets
- Through a red lens
- Aums for the poor
- Two thousand
- Fish out of water
- Body politic
- Kim, Kim, Kim
- Ukraine from Ottawa
- Orange alert
- Ottawa under siege
- Unfinished
- Break
- Backgammon
- Danny
- He pouri
- Missing
- Acknowledgments
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