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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.
Kat Cameron is the author of Strange Labyrinth and The Eater of Dreams. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies across Canada. She lives in Edmonton.
GHOSTS ARE ORDINARY2 Cracked3 Blue Scarf4 B-Flat Minor5 Lament6 Haunted12 For Gerda, on the threshold14 Paper Chambers15 Windows of Faith16 Bastille Day 201617 The King in the Car Park19 A DiaryALBERTA ADVANTAGE22 Athabasca Glacier 192424 Big Burn25 Copper Moon26 Drought27 Elms28 Flood Erasures 201329 Garden30 Hinton 201331 Interlude32 Johnston Canyon33 K-Country34 Loons and Wolf Willows36 Moose Photobomb37 Old North Trail39 Oilers Nation40 Poetic Licence41 Prairie Fields42 Rollerblades43 Saturday Night Prowl44 Territory45 Until Help Arrives46 VW Ramblings47 Whyte Avenue 2 a.m.48 YEG/YYCLIGHTNING OVER WYOMING50 Man of the West51 Louisa’s Locket52 Taken53 White Shoes54 Woman in White55 Testimony58 Soiled Doves60 Little Sure Shot62 Glass Targets in a Museum63 Annie’s Gun64 Lightning over Wyoming69 Notes73 Acknowledgements
"[Cameron elucidates] aspects of living in Alberta: the boom-bust madnesses, the burns and floods, the Timmy Ho rednecks, the city scavengers and the sweet cricket fields.... Cameron’s poems simmer with a quiet ire amid their gentle songs." [Full review at https://crowgirl11.wordpress.com/2020/03/25/kat-camerons-ghosts-still-linger-u-of-a-press-and-kim-goldbergs-devolution-caitlin-press/]