The Unmemntioable joins letters that should not be joined. There is, in this word, an act of force. Of devastation. The unmentionable is love, of course. But in Moure’s poems, love is bound to a duty:
In Kapusta, Moure performs this silence on the page and aloud, writing ?gesture” and ?voice” to explore the relation between responsibility and place, body, memory, sorrow, and sonority. Here, poetry
Rooted in medieval Galician-Portuguese cantigas, most untranslated before now, Erin Moure’s poems take off from the title phrase, literally ?the place where falling is made.” Also a word for waterfall
Erin Moure, a frequent nominee and winner of the Governor General’s and other literary awards, is one of the most consistently innovative, imaginative poets at work in Canada. With each book, Moure se
A temporary move to Toronto in the winter of 2000, a twisted ankle, an empty house?all inspired Moure as she read Alberto Caeiro and Fernando Pessoa's classic long poem O Guardador de Rebanhos. For fu
