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	<title>Vancouver Verse</title>
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		<title>City of Vancouver Poet Laureate – Call for Expressions of Interest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Vancouver, B.C.) – The City of Vancouver would like to hear from poets interested in becoming the City’s third Poet Laureate.  The call for nominations and submissions is open until August 24.
“Since 2007, the City of Vancouver has selected a gifted writer to represent the cultural richness of our community and we have been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bradcran.com/vancouver_verse/city-of-vancouver-poet-laureate-%e2%80%93-call-for-expressions-of-interest/</link>
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		<title>Vancouver 125 Legacy Books Collection Announced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pleased to announce that as part of the Vancouver 125 celebrations, and in partnership with the Association of Book Publishers of BC, we will be working with publishers to bring ten important Vancouver books back into print. It&#8217;s an inspired list of books. Keep an eye out for them at your local bookstore. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bradcran.com/vancouver_verse/vancouver-125-legacy-books-collection-announced/</link>
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		<title>Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Gray Whale,  After Wallace Stevens and ending with a line from Rilke</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Written for the City of Vancouver’s Greenest City initiative to become the Greenest City in the World by 2020 and in recognition of the gray whale that swam into Downtown Vancouver on May 5th 2010
1 
An armoured lung,
a living castle of barnacle
and bone; a peaceful
leviathan moving with
the ease of a dark cloud.
2
The child knows more
about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bradcran.com/vancouver_verse/thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-a-gray-whale-after-wallace-stevens-and-ending-with-a-line-from-rilke/</link>
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		<title>A brief note on Pickton</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When listening to the CBC this morning it was hard to hear a debate on  whether it would be money well spent on an inquiry into the official  handling of the Pickton case. Discrimination was at the heart of the  Pickton debacle to begin with and here it is again.
Surely if this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bradcran.com/vancouver_verse/a-brief-note-on-pickton/</link>
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		<title>Alien, Correspondent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure if it is my ignorance or his low profile (a combination of both?) but up until yesterday I hadn&#8217;t heard of Antony Di Nardo, a poet in his sixties who has published two books simultaneously this year: Alien Correspondent (Brick Books) and Soul on Standby (Exile Editions.) Perhaps as a poet laureate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bradcran.com/vancouver_verse/alien-correspondent/</link>
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		<title>Renee Norman&#8217;s Book Launch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Renee Norman is launching her new book on June 17th at the Jewish Community Centre  art gallery at 4pm. 950 West 41st. There will refreshments and special guests.
In this third collection of poetry, Renee Norman inhabits Martha Quest,   Doris Lessing’s autobiographical protagonist from her Martha Quest  series of novels, like a spirit, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bradcran.com/vancouver_verse/renee-normans-book-launch/</link>
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If I had a billion dollars I&#8217;d buy you a sound canon.
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		<link>http://bradcran.com/vancouver_verse/254/</link>
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		<title>What important Vancouver book would you like to see brought back into print?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What important Vancouver book would you like to see brought back into print?
I asked that question a little over a week ago and here is a preliminary list. I know some of these books are still in print or have recently been brought back into print but I included them anyway since they have been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bradcran.com/vancouver_verse/what-important-vancouver-book-would-you-like-to-see-brought-back-into-print/</link>
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		<title>On Women’s Gold and Equality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this case a picture is better than a poem.
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		<link>http://bradcran.com/vancouver_verse/on-women%e2%80%99s-gold-equality-and-the-ioc/</link>
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		<title>Vancouver Real Writers Series</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is the video from the finale of the Vancouver Real Writers Series. Please check out the wonderful writers or at 36:20 you can see me read &#8220;2010 Handbook for Entering Canada&#8221; followed by Al Purdy&#8217;s &#8220;Say the Names.&#8221;

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