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    Inter Alia
    Inter Alia
    Inter Alia
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    Inter Alia

    By David Seymour

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    Shortlisted for the 2006 Gerald Lampert Award

    Inter Alia is the long-awaited first collection by one of Canada’s most talented young poets. His work has been widely published in journals and was selected by Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane for Breathing Fire 2: Canada’s New Poets. He is heir to the English metaphysical poets in many of his preoccupations, with a good dash of Robert Bly, but his technique is very much influenced by his interests in Oriental forms – haiku, waka, haibun, etc. Seymour is smart, yes; but this is above all poetry of deep feeling. Its publication marks the appearance of a unique and important new voice in Canadian poetry.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrick Books
    Release dateSep 15, 2005
    ISBN9781926829487
    Inter Alia
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    David Seymour

    David Seymour's Inter Alia was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award. His poems have been included in three Best Canadian Poetry anthologies, shortlisted for the CBC Literary Award and used as song lyrics for The Warped 45's. David lives in Toronto, where he works in the ?lm industry.

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      Book preview

      Inter Alia - David Seymour

      INTER

      ALIA

      INTER

      DAVID SEYMOUR

      ALIA

      Brick Books

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Seymour, David, 1971–

            Inter alia / David Seymour.

      Poems.

      ISBN 1-894078-45-4

      I. Title.

      PS8637.E95I58 2005       C811’.6       C2005-903458-0

      We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP), and the Ontario Arts Council for their support of our publishing program.

      The cover photograph is by the author.

      The book is set in FF DIN and Minion.

      Design and layout by Alan Siu.

      Printed by Sunville Printco Inc.

      Brick Books

      431 Boler Road, Box 20081

      London, Ontario N6K 4G6

      www.brickbooks.ca

      This book is for my parents, Ron and Garie Seymour.

      The words are for my wife, Karen.

      Contents

      Nomenclature of the Semi-Precious

      Amber

      Peridot

      Black Opal

      Heliotrope (Bloodstone)

      True Chalcedony

      Lapis Lazuli

      Quartz

      Topaz

      Almandine

      Moonstone

      Tourmaline

      Inter Alia

      Photograph of an Old Room

      Early Morning City

      Injured Swan, High Park

      Rain Dance

      In autumn

      Perlerorneq

      Lines for Elora Gorge

      Ten Day Poem for Saskatchewan

      ka

      The Cat Forgets

      The Organ of Corti

      Red Panties on the Windowsill

      Two Brass Candlesticks

      Inter Alia

      A Word On Silence

      Head Arrangements

      Inter Alios

      The astronauts are waking up

      Waiting While You Sleep

      Six Meditations on Breasts

      I could rouse her

      The Plain Fact of the Matter

      Promise

      Words are Rain in the Womb of a Cloud

      Utility (A love poem for Jeremy Bentham)

      Ghost of a Chance

      More Accidents

      In the Absence of Birds

      Reading

      Slow Cure

      A Letter to Charlie Lukashevsky on His Birth

      Fugue For the Gulf of Mexico

      Preface

      Fugue For the Gulf of Mexico

      Notes

      Acknowledgements

      Occasionally we still have the feeling that

      violence has long been done to the thingly

      element of things and that thought has played

      a part in this violence, for which reason people

      disavow thought instead of taking pains to

      make it more thoughtful.

      —Martin Heidegger

      Anyone whom the little man looks at pays no

      attention; not to himself and not to the little

      man. In consternation he stands before a pile

      of debris.

      —Walter Benjamin

      Nomenclature of the Semi-Precious

      you have to go, already you can feel you’re

      somewhere else, deposited,

      you’re washed up in some other life as

      insubstantial as a stone.

      —Don McKay

      Amber

      The hugeness of the fact of them. They look

      extraterrestrial, salt- and bone-coloured skin,

      sharing inaudible ageless gossip, one foot

      planted firmly in the grave. The oldest are unswayable,

      even with that fat westerly huffing off the Pacific.

      So remote, they no longer understand

      ground: where you and the insects eke out days.

      Light sieves through the upper boughs,

      tip-toes over the younger needles. The air

      under them is a murky syrup, some turbid

      afterthought of nature. Forget the blisters

      and cracks of history, unstirred memory, lost love.

      These are the real McCoys, the hard copies. Pious.

      Fossils of regret. A mosquito lands cautiously,

      with a dim fear, the need to tap coursing blood.

      Peridot

      You

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