{"id":12247,"date":"2012-07-12T14:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T21:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingvancouver.ca\/?p=12247"},"modified":"2013-01-21T07:31:55","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:31:55","slug":"writing-vancouver-poem1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/07\/12\/writing-vancouver-poem1\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Vancouver – Poem #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Writing Vancouver<\/em> is a bi-weekly section that highlights local talent in the literary arts. Over the coming weeks, Spacing Vancouver readers will be treated to a selected number of poems, stories and essays from the recently released\u00a0 V6A: Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n

We invite our readers to submit<\/a> their own pieces for publication. We look forward to helping spread the word!<\/p>\n

\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n

Poem#1<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n

ALBERT FLETT
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\nI was almost young then,
\nand half insane,
\ndamaged beyond my years.
\nI found her sleeping on my floor,
\nI had a bed,
\nand invited her in.
\nIt didn\u2019t take long,
\nwe fell in love in a graveyard,
\ndrinking with the dead.
\nWe lived together,
\nit didn\u2019t take long,
\nwe almost destroyed ourselves,
\nour pleasure became our pain,
\nsmiling through our madness,
\nwatching through pinned eyes.
\nNo regrets for what we did,
\nonly regrets for what we missed.<\/p>\n

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\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n

Albert Flett<\/strong> was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and raised in Vancouver, BC. His first childhood memories are of living with his father in an SRO in the DTES. Albert still lives in East Vancouver and writes and plays music in a local punk band, Ovary Action.<\/em><\/p>\n

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V6A: Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside<\/strong><\/a> is a record of this community’s self-determination via the poems, stories, essays and experimental writing of 32 authors, who have all been members of the DTES community in some way, at some point in their lives.<\/em><\/p>\n

Published by Arsenal Pulp Press<\/a>, the contributors feature in the book are: John Barry, Elisabeth Buchanan, Wayde Compton, Henry Doyle, Daggar Earnshaw, Albert Flett, Patrick Foley, Angela Gallant, Gary Geddes, Anne Hopkinson, Jonina Kirton, Don Larson, Gisele LeMire, Robyn Livingstone, Stephen Lytton, Don Macdonald, Muriel Marjorie, My Name is Scot, Lora McElhinney, James McLean, Brenda Prince, Antonette Rea, Rachel Rose, Sen Yi, Irit Shimrat, Kevin Spenst, Loren Stewart, Madeleine Thien, Michael Turner, Phoenix Winter, Cathleen With, Elaine Woo and Daniel Zomparelli.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0V6A is for sale at People’s Coop Bookstore, Little Sister’s, Chapters\/Indigo, SFU Bookstore Downtown, Hager Books and online at amazon.ca also as an ebook and available internationally as of September 2012. Partial proceeds benefit Thursdays Writing Collective<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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