Full Description
In the arena, she shot cigarettes and coins
from her trusting husband's hand. Some women
wished she would miss.
—from "Little Sure Shot"
Kat Cameron's poetry illuminates the unsung perspectives of the women of the West, creating a compelling narrative that reflects the poet's own struggles with sorrow. She conjures ghosts and weaves together insights on loss, memory, and the impacts of boom and bust.
Contents
GHOSTS ARE ORDINARY
2 Cracked
3 Blue Scarf
4 B-Flat Minor
5 Lament
6 Haunted
12 For Gerda, on the threshold
14 Paper Chambers
15 Windows of Faith
16 Bastille Day 2016
17 The King in the Car Park
19 A Diary
ALBERTA ADVANTAGE
22 Athabasca Glacier 1924
24 Big Burn
25 Copper Moon
26 Drought
27 Elms
28 Flood Erasures 2013
29 Garden
30 Hinton 2013
31 Interlude
32 Johnston Canyon
33 K-Country
34 Loons and Wolf Willows
36 Moose Photobomb
37 Old North Trail
39 Oilers Nation
40 Poetic Licence
41 Prairie Fields
42 Rollerblades
43 Saturday Night Prowl
44 Territory
45 Until Help Arrives
46 VW Ramblings
47 Whyte Avenue 2 a.m.
48 YEG/YYC
LIGHTNING OVER WYOMING
50 Man of the West
51 Louisa's Locket
52 Taken
53 White Shoes
54 Woman in White
55 Testimony
58 Soiled Doves
60 Little Sure Shot
62 Glass Targets in a Museum
63 Annie's Gun
64 Lightning over Wyoming
69 Notes
73 Acknowledgements
