The Tantramar Re-Vision by Kevin Irie

Kevin Irie has made the 2017 CBC Poetry Prize longlist for The Tantramar Re-Vision.

• 33 writers make longlist for the 2017 CBC Poetry Prize

About Kevin

KevinIrie'spoems have been published in Canada and abroad and been translated into French, Spanish and Japanese. He is apast finalist for theCBCPoetry Prize, as well as a finalist for the Toronto Book Award and theAcorn-PlantosAward for People's Poetry.Kevinlives in Toronto.

Entry in five-ish words

Thompson's Tantramar as paradise/purgatory

The poem's source of inspiration

"The landscape of John Thompson's poems."

First lines

Follow the path like a rip to its edge,
a scar down its seam,

follow the route,
no road,
just a trail

straightas a finger that points from no hand
Past High Marsh farms and farther fields.