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Author Archives: deirdre
Blog post at mysmallpresswritingday: “My writing day”
https://mysmallpresswritingday.blogspot.com/2019/06/deirdre-maultsaid-my-small-press.html
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Tagged blog, distractions, public transportation, small press, writers, writing
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Poem published at League of Canadian Poets, Fresh Voices: “Habit of Hate”
http://poets.ca/2020/06/26/fresh-voices-20/
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Poem, “Nervy Endings, Nerve Ends, Ends” in Stonewall’s Legacy Anthology
https://www.localgemspoetrypress.com/stonewalls-legacy-anthology.html Also available here: Amazon
Two Poems published at Canthius: “False Dilemma” and “Derelict”
http://www.canthius.com/feed-1/2019/1/6/two-poems-by-deirdre-maultsaid
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Tagged British Columbia, Canthius, false dilemma, feminist, killer whale, poems, urban
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Essay, “Dad, Magisterium” published at White Wall Review
Dad, Magisterium
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Tagged biography, British Columbia, CNF, creative nonfiction, father, Great Central Lake, LGBTQ2SIA, memoir, White Wall
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Essay “Death Before Dishonour” Published at 3ElementsReview
Essay, “Death Before Dishonour”, was published at 3elementsreview. The three elements I had to use where “Glaze, Thread, and Murmur”. “Does any parent want to be in a hospital hallway, after a long afternoon of decisions, staring…” Read essay on … Continue reading
Poem “Make-a-Wish” was published at Pif
Make-a-Wish By Deirdre Maultsaid //Things I love: Bacardi drunk young men still boasting, lips sloppy pickups that roll out, up, over, before, still, after, then. Black ice car fresheners swaying and clacking. Sulphur, tang, copper, damp. The lonely sight of … Continue reading
Poem “Red Camaro” was published at Pif
Red Camaro By Deirdre Maultsaid //Ruthless, the sun shone: ironing, scorching root and stem. Its muscles flared, a genderblind juggernaut. Suburban, possessed, the lilacs whisper. In the shadowless nought— on the soulless gravel— I could see the rocket hulk of … Continue reading
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Tagged breakup, Camaro, poem, relationship, sportscar, suburban, summer
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Poem: Listen to man’s lament
Listen to man’s lament By Deirdre Maultsaid //I never loved you. Your epaulettes flapped, your wig and peerage slipped; your jealousy was black oil in your bilge. You had (who was that figure at the prow, that noseless rosewood lady?) … Continue reading
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Tagged four and twenty blackbirds, love, man's lament, mother, poem, temper tantrum, women
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Poem: Washerwomen, Blessings
Washerwomen, Blessings by Deirdre Maultsaid From This crisis, these blessings: essays by Deirdre Maultsaid (Trafford Publishing) First appeared in Canadian Woman Studies, Vol. 22, Summer, 2003 //1. I am a washerwoman standing on unstable ground. I see all in its … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, contemplation, laundry, pioneers, poem, washday, women
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