Anne Fleming lives in Vancouver, BC and teaches at UBC Okanagan. Her previous fiction includes Gay Dwarves of America and Anomaly, and has been commissioned by CBC Radio and widely published in magazines such as Toronto Life, The Journey Prize Stories and The New Quarterly where her work won a National Magazine Award. Poemw is her first poetry collection.

Poemw

In Poemw, the third finger of the left hand hits ‘w’ instead of ‘s’ and makes up a new kind of poem, the sort-of poem, the approxi-lyric, the poem that doesn’t want to claim poemness. Poemw are about daily things — graffiti, hair, sea gulls, second-hand clothes — and rarer things — dead crows, baked mice, ski accidents, Judith Butler. They’re jokes-and-not-jokes, cheeky, goofy and tender.