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BOOKS
Date Title ISBN # Publisher
1981 The Thumbless Man is at the Piano - (TOC) 0-88823-045-1 Three Trees Press
1984 On Nights Like This - (TOC) 0-919626-25-4 Brick Books
1987 Gathering Wild - (TOC) 0-919626-35-1 Brick Books
1992 Summer Grass - (TOC) 0-919626-59-9 Brick Books
1996 Tamarack & Clearcut - (TOC) 0-88629-293-X Carleton University Press
1999 Gusts - (TOC) 0-921254-86-5 Penumbra Press
2000 Scissor, Paper, Woman - (TOC) 1-894131-01-0 Penumbra Press
2003 Early Evening Pieces - (TOC) 1-894543-14-9 BuschekBooks
2005 Zen Mercies / Small Satoris - (TOC) 1-894131-75-4 Penumbra Press
2005 The Eternities - (TOC) 0-9735910-2-1 St. Thomas Poetry Series
2006 Nude with Scar - (TOC) 1-894131-93-2 Penumbra Press
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ANTHOLOGIES
Date Anthology Publisher, Editor, Poems Included
1976 This is My Best: Poems Selected by 91 Poets Coach House Press, Kenneth Gist, How Franz Went Mad
1976? Auguries: A Continuing Anthology of the Arts David Conrad, Salon, Paris 1939
1978 International Anthology of Concrete Poetry Vol.1 Poetry Toronto Books, John Jessop, the layered pines
1985 Haiku, Anthologie Canadienne, Candian Anthology Éditions Asticou, Dorothy Howard & André Duhaime, November/a cricket/in the rec-room wall; cold rains/slash the tulips; empty street/the last brown leaves/let go; wind in the long grass/and somebody/whistling... (also in French)
1986 Chapter Four Anthology: Haiku Written by Canadian Women Jane Reichhold, ah these soft spring nights/full of bawling cats.../and lilac
1987 10th Anniversary Haiku Canada Holographic Anthology Haiku Canada, Marco Fraticelli, hanging out the window/with my dog-eared Basho/and a big orange moon
1987 Milkweed: A Gathering of Haiku Nietzsche's Brolly, Marshall Hryciuk, utterly still/an old heron/in the sparkling shoals; behind the run-down/fried clam stands/ocean (called Marion Bluger here
1988 Special Delivery: Haiku Canada Members' Anthology Haiku Canada, Nick Avis, the sparkler dies/and Agi's face
1990 Open Set: A Tree Anthology Agawa Press, Heather Ferguson, By Bricks; On the Mall (from Gathering Wild)
1991 Silenced Spring: Haiku Canada Member's Anthology Haiku Canada, Brian Birch, of the season/upwind on cold sand/a gull struts
1991 Wind in the Long Grass Simon & Schuster, W.J. Higginson, wind in the long grass/and somebody/whistling
1992 15th Anniversary Haiku Canada Holographic Anthology Haiku Canada, Marco Fraticelli, with what enviable impudence/the cabbage white sails/over the turnstile
1993 Haiku Moment Charles E. Tuttle Co. Inc., Bruce Ross, rain-rinsed twilight/a motionless toad/claims the walk; flat tire/the cows just stand and slowly/turn to look; cloudy afternoon/a white chrysanthemum/just one;
1994 Wind Five Folded; An Athology of English-Language Tanka AHA Books, Jane & Werner Reichhold, Friday night/in the rooming house/-- also lonesome/that Nigerian student/playing his flute (in modified form in Gusts; when I was sick in winter/my old mother came/swept the floor/and poured some warm water/on my beloved azalea (in modified form in Zen Mercies / Small Satoris); maybe because you're gone/ he has come/to thread my ankles/as I weed the garden/-- the neighbour's tom (in Gusts)
1994 Bookware Ottawa Valley Poetry '94 Ottawa Valley Book Fair, S. McMaster & C. Morton, When You Were Gone to the Gulf (from Summer Grass)
1996 Vintage 95: League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Contest Quarry Press, Linda Rogers, The Zen Master's Wife, In Albion Daylight
1996 Jiyu-Katari (Free-Talking) (7th Ito En "Oh-I, Ocha!" New Haiku Contest Ito En (Green Tea), immaculate,/on their rusting barge,/the egrets preen (President's Prize)
1997 20th Anniversary Haiku Canada Holographic Anthology Haiku Canada, Murial Ford, bald from chemo/my friend Diana/a laughing Buddha
1998? Asayhi Contest Publication Asayhi, ?, in the rain/at the curb -- fashion mags/tied with panty hose (President's Prize?)
1999? Asayhi Contest Publication Asayhi, ?, past the reactor/gilt with sunset -- a gull/wings back to the sea (Grand Prize?)
1999 Soul of the Season JDC, Ikkoku Santo, From the night train/a glimpse/of a farm kitchen
1999 The Old Enchanter: A Portrait of George Johnston Penumbra Press, M.I. Cameron, Douglas Campbell & Gurli Woods, Imaginary Portrait of the Real George Johnston (from Summer Grass, 1992)
2000 all going somewhere - Haiku Canada Member's Anthology 1999-2000 Haiku Canada, LeRoy Gorman, morning sun/ping of a quarter at the toll-booth/lights up GO
2000 New Life in Dark Seas: Brick Books 25 Brick Books, Stan Dragland, The Treaties (from Gathering Wild)
2001 Smaller Than God: Words of Spiritual Longing Black Moss Press, Br. Paul Quenon & John B. Lee, Names of Yahweh (from Summer Grass), Grace (from Summer Grass)
2001 Countless Leaves Inkling Press, Gerald St. Maur, In a ruined orchard (honourable mention in traditional category), Night falls, On these cold waves
2002 Poetry and Spiritual Practice St. Thomas Poetry Series, Susan McCaslin, On Nights Like This (essay), Names of Yahweh (from Summer Grass), Good Friday (from Summer Grass), Inarticulations (from Summer Grass), In Albion Daylight (from Scissor, Paper, Woman)
2002 Haiku: Poetry Ancient & Modern Tuttle Press, Jackie Hardy, this rainy night/out wandering anywhere/the wet leaves point
2002 dry waterfall - Kado Spring Anthology Kado Ottawa, Terry Ann Carter, tulip buds tight/& a robin in the rain/stretching a worm
2002 Waging Peace Penumbra Press, Susan McMaster, Bomb Poem for Rabbit (from The Thumbless Man is at the Piano)
2002 Larger Than Life Black Moss Press, Roger Bell, In Broken Night (from Gathering Wild), The Ark and the Raft Gone Over (from On Nights Like This), Blesse (from Scissor, Paper, Woman)
2003 57th Annual Basho Festival Anthology Basho Festival, ?, In soft summer dark
2003 crickets and crows - Kado Anthology Kado Ottawa, Terry Ann Carter, the moonlit station/empty as a train whistles/through the small town
2003 Haiku: Poésies Anciennes & Modernes Véga, Jackie Hardy, cette nuit pluvieuse/errant n'importe où/les feuilles humides indiquent la voie
2003 Hugs, Haiga, Haiku and Other Good Stuff ?, Lois ?, My Girl Cried Mother the Wind
2004 Haiku: Alte und moderne Meister Patmos, Jackie Hardy, Diese Regennacht --/wohin sie auch ziehen mag:/nasse Blattspitzen.
2004 Scent of Seaweed - Kado Spring Anthology Kado Ottawa, Grant Savage, first snow falling/I take up the long unanswered/letter from Japan
2004 Tulip Haiku Shoreline Press, Angela Leuck, sleet/slashing the red tulips/-- the phone rings (from Tamarack & Clearcut), tulip buds tight/& a robin in the rain/stretching a worm (from Early Evening Pieces)
2004 Haiku Canada Holographic Anthology Haiku Canada, Marco Fraticelli & Philomene Kocher, on the beach/back to the wind - I watch it/sweep my tracks
2005 Rose Haiku for Flower Lovers and Gardeners Redlader Publishing, Angela Leuck, the heat.../among roses/a straw hat dips (from Tamarack & Clearcut), opening slowly/in the warm kitchen -- the last/frost-scarred red rose (from Early Evening Pieces)
2005 Past the Stars - Kado Spring Anthology Kado Ottawa; Terry Ann Carter, Claudia Radmore & Grant Savage; woodland spring/above dense firs - a jet/twinkles past the stars
2005 Jiyu-Katari (Free-Talking) (16th Ito En "Oh-I, Ocha!" New Haiku Contest Ito En (Green Tea), Kiyoshi Hashizume (director), fog in the village/a figure waving at me/passes by (won 2nd Prize)
2005 In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry Polestar, Kate Braid and Sandy Shreve, Leafsmoke (from Tamarack & Clearcut), In Oak (from Gathering Wild)
2005 Canadian Poems for Canadian Kids Subway Books, Jen Hamilton, I Chased a Butterfly
2005 Twenty-five Years of Tree BuschekBooks, James Moran & Jennifer Mulligan, On the Mall, At Mooney's Bay, Grace, The Treaties (1992)
2006 Invisible Tea (for Marianne Bluger) Kado Ottawa Kado Ottawa (Bondi Studios), Terry Ann Carter, Claudia Radmore & Grant Savage, woodland spring/above dense firs - a jet/twinkles past the stars, first snow falling/I take up the long unanswered/letter from Japan
2006 Letting Go: An Anthology of Loss and Survival Black Moss Press, Hugh MacDonald, The Silence After (tanka sequence); singing somewhere, banging, what to do, is it somewhere here, where last fall, still, from an orphan, in the bitter cold, steaming up the windows, he left me, swaying, when these birches, (coda) above my desk
2006 Canadian Listers' Corner Rolling Clouds Editions, Larry Neily, End of season & swallows (from Tamarack & Clearcut), in a pause & through drifting mist (from Early Evening Pieces), I tottered often (from Zen Mercies / Small Satoris), What to make (from Gusts), In Richmond Fen (from Summer Grass), Present Things (from Scissor, Paper, Woman)
2006 L'Érotique Editions Biliki, Micheline Beaudry & Janick Belleau, un oiseau de l'aube.../les cils de mon mari/s'agitent
2006 Fire Pearls: Short Masterpieces of the Human Heart Seamark, M. Kei, Spot my old flame Zen Mercies / Small Satoris, Cold fire Zen Mercies / Small Satoris, With melting flakes Zen Mercies / Small Satoris, home from a cruise (from Nude with Scar), You boast in print Zen Mercies / Small Satoris, all the years (from Nude with Scar)
2007 Poetry as Liturgy St. Thomas Poetry Series, Margo Swiss, The Canticles
2008 faint notes Red Moon Press, Jim Kaicin, 24 pages of Marianne Bluger's haiku (one of the Postscript series of chapbooks)

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PERIODICALS
Date Magazine - Issue Publisher, Editor, Poems Included
1975 Quarry: Vol.24 No.4, Autumn Quarry Press, W.J. Barnes, Swift as the shadow, For R.E., For Joyce, & Sky out attic window
197? Ottawa Poetry News 2 - Vol.1 No.6 Dec. Leaflet ?, Night Travelling
1976 Stuffed Crocodile: Vol.3 No.4, May Killaly Press, Clarke Leverette, Poem in orange ink & Poem
1976 Contemporary Verse II: Vol.2 Contemporary Verse II, Dorothy Livesay, For D. who is always remembering
1976 The Alchemist: Vol.1 No.3 Marco Fraticelli, Marco Fraticelli, You become the period & In late winter in Ontario
1977 Boréal 9 John Flood & Jacques Albert, Exchange & La bourse (its translation by Alexandre Amprimoz)
1978 The Fiddlehead No.117 Spring University of New Brunswick, Roger Ploude & Robert Gibbs (poetry), Gertrude Stein
1978 Waves Vol.6 No.3 Spring Bernice Lever, Hédi Bouraoui, Robt Casto & John Oughton, You Can Live
1978 Sparks Vol.2 No.5 June Blaine Marchand & Kathryn Oakley, The Disciplines
1979 The Christian Century Vol.XCVI No.13 April 11 The Christian Century, James M. Wall, Easter Poem
1979 The Antigonish Review No.38 Summer St. Francis Xavier University, R.J. MacSween, Full Moon & Grasshopper Poem
1979 The Canadian Forum Vol.LIX No.695 Dec-Jan 1979-80 The Canadian Forum, Sam Solecki & Douglas Barbour (poetry), Hanging by the cords of a helium balloon
19?? Boréal John Flood & Jacques Albert, Lady Simcoe
1980 Fireweed Issues 5&6 Winter 79/80 & Spring 1980 Fireweed Inc.; Elizabeth Brady, Lynne Fernie, Rina Fraticelli, Barbara Godard & Rhea Tregebov; The heart, the sea
1980 Mamashee No.2 Vol.4 Summer Margaret Drage, The Hunt
1980 Wastelands No.1 Autumn Wastelands Publications, Bruce Brown, Good Jam
1980 Wee Giant Vol.3 No.3 Fall Margaret Saunders, Margaret Saunders, Mountain Hermit, Now Pompeii & The Pitiful Thing
1980 Branching Out Vol.VII No.I ?, ?, The Thousandth Spring Would Be The Same
1980 Cicada Vol.4 No.4 1980 Eric Amann, Eric Amann, Moonlight/lapping/the dock; November/a cricket/in the rec-room wall; In a yellow lamp-halo/long-haired Agi reading/fairy tales; Betelgeuse/a hoot-owl calls -- a breeze/snaps the tent flap; Empty street/the last brown leaves/let go; Just a tarpaper shack/but the meadow has/cornflowers; Wind in the long grass/and somebody/whistling...; & Someone weeps/between the wax corpse/and massed mums
1981 High/Coo Vol.5 No.20 May Randy & Shirley Brooks, year by year the pines & The Album
1981 Tree Presents No.1 Summer Tree Reading Series; Marty Flomen, Steven Guenther & David Freedman, For Agi who was wondering
1981 Canadian Author & Bookman Vol.57 No.1 Fall Canadian Authors' Association, Sybil Marshall & Bernice Lever (poetry), Night Slinks Off
1981 Brick: a journal of reviews 13 Fall Brick Books, Stan Dragland & Jean McKay, Jagdip 1968
1981 Wee Giant Vol.4 No.2 Margaret Saunders, Margaret Saunders, The End of the Beast, If I Make for the Leafless Thickets & The Voyeur You Have Made
198? Spectrum Vol.4 No.4 ?, ?, Infinite Riches
1982 Origins Vol.12 No.2 Summer Herb Barrett, Krishna-Shiva
1982 Northward Journal No.25 August John Flood, The Treaties
1982 Inkstone Vol. 1 No. 2 Autumn Toronto Haiku Workshop, Keith Southward & Marshall Hryciuk, splayed in the dust/at the foot of the bookshelves/a ragged moth
1982 Tree Presents No.3 Tree Reading Series, Marcus Jokinen, hotel (night and day/in a room by the sea/with the waves pounding)
1983 This Magazine Vol.17 No.1 March Adams, Crean, Drache, Filyer, Lang, Salutin, Saul, Sullivan, Vohanka & Watkins; In the Station
1983 The Antigonish Review No.53 Spring St. Francis Xavier University, George Sanderson, A Song & Owned
1985 New Cicada Vol.2 No.1 March ?, Tadao Okazaki, twisted old lilac/one more year/perfuming this yard, birches shimmer/a canoe drifts in shallows/of rippling shade, under a hot sun/coast-bound cars stop for a turtle/crossing to the marsh, naked moon/the silver waves keep breaking/on the dunes & hey! that cedar bush/commotion of sparrows just/knocked the snow off!
1985 Poetry Canada Review Vol.6 No.3 Spring ECW Press, Robert Billings, Life and Literature, Canon Denton & The Poplars
1985 Ariel Vol.16 No.3 July ?, Ian Adam & Christopher Wiseman (poetry), An Observation for Marja
1985 Poetry Canada Review Vol.7 No.2 Winter 1985-86 ECW Press, Robert Billings, By Bricks, Portrait of Maji & Kenneth Patchen
1985 Daybreak No.1 Margaret Saunders, Margaret Saunders, Saying Grace & a rainy night/out wandering anywhere/the flat leaves point
1988 Frogpond Vol.XI No.4 November ?, Elizabeth Searle Lamb, a little drunk/with the moon/among the pumpkins
1989 Poetry Canada Review Vol.10 No.1 Spring ECW Press; Bev Daurio, Barry Dempster, Bruce Meyer, Barbara Carey & James Deahl; Gathering Wild (see 1987 - Books) & Mayakovsky Monk
1990 Frogpond Vol.XIII No.4 November ?, Elizabeth Searle Lamb, cloudy afternoon/a white chrysanthemum/just one & 'for sale'/in the empty barn/wind
1990 Poetry Canada Review Vol.11 No.4 Winter ECW Press, Barry Dempster (poetry), The End of the Absolute & The Salmon
1990 Bywords Vol.1 No.2 December ?; T. Christensen, G.Guth & E. Symons; The Widow Denton
1990 The Alchemist # 13 Vol.4 No.1 Late Marco Fraticelli, Marco Fraticelli, spring sidewalk/the crippled pencil vendor/is back
1991 Trail & Landscape Vol.25 No.2 Apr.-Jun. OFNC, Fenja Brodo, In Richmond Fen
1991 Haiku Canada Newsletter Vol.VII No.I Fall Haiku Canada, Ruby Spriggs, phonebooth spiderweb/shakes in the wind/I call home, creak of wicker/from a screened porch/village dusk & evening falls/I stand up/and walk around the room
1991 Haiku in English # 478 - Dec. 21 Mainichi Daily News # 24716, Sato Kazuo, one of the globe lights/along the river parkway/is the moon
1992 Bywords Vol.2 No.5 March ?; M. Abraham, T. Christensen, G.Guth & E. Symons; Inarticulations
1992 Arc No.28 Spring Arc Poetry Society, John Barton & Nadine McInnis, Levertov & Going Up She Said Descending
1992 Haiku in English # 505 - Summer/Fall 1992? Mainichi Daily News, Sato Kazuo, a gust/scattering crumbs/and sparrows
1992 The Alchemist # 14 Vol.IV No.2 2e trim. Marco Fraticelli, Marco Fraticelli, fogbound/in a hotel room/reruns, waves/as we argue/keep rolling, midnight/the hibachi/still glowing, through the slot/with the pizza flier/a cold gust & supper alone/letting the cat/lick my plate
1992 Contemporary Verse 2 Vol.15 No.2 Fall Contemporary Verse 2; Jane Casey, Heidi Eigenkind, K. Louise Fulton, Naomi Guilbert, Diane McGifford, Uma Parameswaran & Patrica Rawson; How We Are Judged by the Sun
1992 Inkstone Vol.5 No.2 Toronto Haiku Workshop; Keith Southward, Marshall Hryciuk & Louise Fletcher; resting/on my shovel/a swallowtail & leaving feet first/into spring rain/the local recluse
1993 Modern Haiku Vol. 24 No.2 June ?, Robert Spiess, the moving van leaves/apples petals swirling/over the drive
1993 Haiku in English # 531 - Nov. 20 Mainichi Daily News, Sato Kazuo, on the autumn lake/a pier in silence floats/on empty oildrums
1994 Tanka Splendor 1993 Jan. 1994 Jane Reichhold, George Ralph (judge), several languages
1994 Raw Nervz Vol. 1 No. 2 Summer proof press, Dorothy Howard, flat tire/the cows just stand and slowly/turn to look
1995 Tanka Splendor 1994 Jan. 1995 Jane Reichhold, Geraldine Little (judge), one big sweep & badlands
1995 Modern Haiku Vol. 26 No.1 Feb. ?, Robert Spiess, evening falls/through his drowned grove/a beaver glides
1995 Five Lines Down - Summer ?; Kenneth Tanemura & Sanford Goldstein; strapless, moon sheen, in the cold shade, like a stranger, sulking & gusts
1995 Haiku in English # 563 - Summer Mainichi Daily News, Sato Kazuo, on all the new cars/in rows at the dealershop/sleet hitting hard
1995 The Malahat Review # 112 Sep. UBC, Derk Wynand, Porchlight
1995 Contemporary Verse 2 Vol.17 No.3 Winter Contemporary Verse 2; Heidi Eigenkind, Clarise Foster, K. Louise Fulton, Tanya Lester, Diane McGifford, Judith Kearns & Janine Tschuncky; The Letter
1996 Five Lines Down No.4 Jan. Kenneth Tanemura and Sanford Goldstein, the old stone church/ringing as the infant squeals/with shock at the cold/baptismal rinse/on her little bald pate; well I know now/it was wrong -- that turn I took/that got me stuck/on this backroad/up to my axles in mud; falling on granite/already mapped with lichen/raindrops/blotching the surface/obscure my stupid tears
1996 Modern Haiku Vol. 27 No.1 Feb. ?, Robert Spiess, over golden fields/of afternoon ---- milkweed down/drifting.
1996 Trail & Landscape Vol.30 No.1 Jan.-Mar. OFNC, Fenja Brodo, Bird Status Line Report for a Week in the Late 20th Century
1996 (muse)Letters Spring ?, Ted Plantos, How I Came to Poetry (essay)
1996 Arc No.36 Spring Arc Poetry Society, John Barton & Rita Donovan, The Magnet
1996 Frogpond Vol.XIX No.1 May ?, Kenneth Leibman, through pines/little breezes keep shifting/the stars
1996 Modern Haiku Vol. 27 No.2 Jun. ?, Robert Spiess, sun sparkling/& an eider bobbing/by sea-smashed rocks & t.v. gunfire/the sleeping child's/eyelids flutter
1996 Trail & Landscape Vol.30 No.3 Jul.-Sep. OFNC, Fenja Brodo, Three at Mud Lake
1996 Hook & Ladder Vol.2 No.3 Autumn ?; Victoria Martin, Greg Fougere & Robin Fougere; In March (not same as in Summer Grass)
1996 Prairie Fire Vol.17 No.3 Autumn ?, Maggie Dwyer, from Kaddish
1996 The Grist Mill Vol.5 1996-7 ?, Joy H. Mann, The Shoestore
1996 Somewhere Across the Border, 2nd series - No. 4, Oct.-Dec. (e-zine) ?, ?, Giorgio & Thus & So
1997 Haiku Canada Newsletter Vol.X No.2 Jan. Haiku Canada, LeRoy Gorman, dazed with cold/a bumblebee clings/to a faded aster
1997 Haiku Canada Newsletter Vol.X No.2 Jan. (Insert) Haiku Canada, LeRoy Gorman, & is the hub: Haiku Canada Sheet; stopped cold in housewares, articulate in wind, end of season, inflight movie, in the windowless hall, t.v. gunfire, fogbound, down the wet street, we used to shriek,crossing the desert, on a mountain lake, on all the new cars
1997 American Tanka Issue 2 Spring American Tanka Inc., Laura Maffei, Feverish, The cosmetician & All night
1997 The New Quarterly Vol.XVII No.1 Spring ?; Mary Merikle, Randi Patterson, John Vardon, Charlene Diehl-Jones & Gary Draper; Izumi Skikibu
1997 Frogpond Vol.XX No.1 May ?, Kenneth Leibman, weaving/through buttercups/a split-rail fence
1997 Bywords Vol.7 No.11 Sep. ?; S. Artelle, A. Dickinson, J. Dunn, J. Green, S.Kuelz & J. Ninacs; Avison(See 1981, For Agi who was wondering)
1997 Frogpond Vol.XX No.2 Sep. ?, Kenneth Leibman, the Queen too/on our stamps/a little older
1997 American Tanka Issue 3 Fall American Tanka Inc., Laura Maffei, Dark now & Just visiting
1997 Dasoku - Fall ?, Jeanne Gugino & Marj Layman, East (Tanka Sequence)
1997 Tanka Splendor 1997 Jane Reichhold, George Swede (judge), Deep in winter
1997 River Review No.3 ?, Bernard Quetchenbach & William Willan (poetry), Three at Mud Lake(See 1996)
1998 Canadian Author Vol.73 No.3 Spring ?, Doug Bale & Roo Borson (poetry), In the Alley
1998 The Nashwaak Review No.5 Summer ?, Stewart Donovan, The Red Rim
1998 American Tanka No.5 Fall American Tanka Inc., Laura Maffei, His forehead & Headed back
1999 Frogpond Vol.22 No.1 ?, Jim Kacain, driving through/a small-town mainstreet/into darkness & 3 a.m./the airport conveyor turning/one battered green valise
1999 Acta Victoriana (Origins) Vol. 123 No. 2 - Spring ?; Alice Cooley, Lisa Goegan & Amanda Pautler; Terrified Ode
1999 Event Vol. 28 No. 2 - Summer ?, Calvin Wharton & Gillian Harding-Russell (poetry), At the Drycleaners
1999 The Fiddlehead No. 202 Winter University of New Brunswick; Ross Leclie, Julie Dennison & Eric Hill (poetry); In a Forgotten Tense & What Happened to the Body Then
2000 Azami (Haiku in English): The Year 2000 ?, Patricia Neubauer, where breakers smash/Pacific rocks/I make my bow/across to Ikkoku
2000 Trail & Landscape Vol.34 No.1 Jan.-Mar. OFNC, Fenja Brodo, Present Things
2000 American Tanka No.8 Spring American Tanka Inc., Laura Maffei, through night rain/with the radio on/by the dash light/I study the man/with whom I am crossing the continent, a stranger/I drive through a village/past a chapel with people/at a wedding/ or funeral..
2000 Tanka in English - Sep. Japan Tanka Poets' Society, ?, Far from home, In the empty kitchen, Gaunt on the sheet, He has sent me & Izumi was
2001 Arc # 47 Winter Arc Poetry Society, John Barton & Stephanie Bolster, Scotia Shore Haiku (sequence)
2001 American Tanka No.10 Spring American Tanka Inc., Laura Maffei, turning/from my daughter's anger/to watch/grey dishwater/swirling down the drain
2001 American Tanka No.11 Fall American Tanka Inc., Laura Maffei, Friday night/in the rooming house/-- also lonesome/that Nigerian student/playing his flute (in modified form in Gusts (from essay "The Varities of Tanka" by Michael Dylan Welch
2001 Haiku Canada Newsletter Vol.XV No.1 Oct. Haiku Canada, LeRoy Gorman, Saturday night/bath running & the hockey game/in overtime
2002 The Tanka Journal No. 20 Japan Tanka Poets' Society, ?, Trout Evenings (sequence)
2002 American Tanka No.12 Spring American Tanka Inc., Laura Maffei, sun/warm on my wrists/as I cut/sprays of budding forsythia/and shake the wet snow off; tell me/ancient auntie asks/one day in her cups/what is it exactly/men like about sex
2002 The Tanka Journal No.21 Japan Tanka Poets' Society, ?, Hinge of a Bookspine (sequence)
2002 Raw NerVZ Essentials Proof Press, Dorothy Howard, Ah those first warm nights
2002 Tanka Splendor 2002 Jane Reichhold, ? (judge), A Plunge of Sky (sequence)
2002 Raw NerVZ Vol.8 No.2 Summer Proof Press, Dorothy Howard, Ill so long (tanka sequence)
2003 American Tanka No.13 American Tanka Inc., Laura Maffei, six o'clock/on a winter night/I find myself/with eight items or less/a cliché at the cash
2003 Kaleidoscope - Vol. 4 Nos. 1 & 2 ?, ?, Snow Haired Women
2003 The Tanka Journal No.22 Japan Tanka Poets' Society, ?, Downtown (sequence)
2003 Arc # 51 Winter Arc Poetry Society, John Barton & Stephanie Bolster, Zen Mercies / Small Satories (tanka chosen by John Barton)
2004? Tangled Hair No. 4 Snapshot Press, John Barlow, willows bend/in the wind/my mind/is becoming/a rolling cloud pond; after midnight/from a stand of cedars/beside the new mall/the plaintive call/of a mateless owl
2004 American Tanka No.14 Spring American Tanka Inc., Laura Maffei, climbing higher/as cloud shade slips/over hot granite/I hear the scree/hit far below
2004 The Tanka Journal No.24 Japan Tanka Poets' Society, ?, Highway Wind (sequence)
2004 Bywords Quarterly Journal - Fall ?, ?, My Friend in Japan
2005 The Tanka Journal No.26 Japan Tanka Poets' Society, ?, Bright Asterisks (sequence)
2005 Gusts Spring/Summer No.1 Tanka Canada, Kozue Uzawa & Angela Leuck, you be the father/I'll be the mother/says the child/to her brother/as they heap autumn leaves; undone/by a man's stoney words/among the old dories/a teen sobs unheard/in the roar of the waves
2006 Raw NerVZ Vol.? No.? Proof Press, Dorothy Howard, wind bunts, except for Brahms, having missed the bus, wind in the long grass, flat tire, with what enviable impudence, on a mountain lake, t.v. gunfire, cold rains, November, empty street, ah these soft spring nights, all down the road (13 haiku under title "Marianne Bluger August 28, 1945 - October 29, 2005")
2006 Haiku Canada Newsletter Vol.XIX No.1 Feb. Haiku Canada, LeRoy Gorman, the last ember dies/a chill takes the house/by moonlight

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REVIEWS, ETC.
Date Magazine - Issue Book Reviewed or Review Title, Reviewer, Poems Included
1998 Frogpond Vol.XXI No.I Tamarack & Clearcut, Elizabeth St. Jacques, a scorched smell -/ burnt fields in the rain/the boulders steam, with the tip of her cane/touching fresh snow/ New Year's morning, cloudy afternoon/a white chrysanthemum/just one, thin light/only the shadows/of snowflakes, mad shadows/-a moth at the porchlight-/I grip a cold key, evening falls/through his drowned grove/a beaver glides, bald from chemo/my friend Diana/a laughing Buddha, dress clinging/sandals in hand - I walked/ through the warm rain home & all night/the spring rain/soaking my dreams
1998 Modern Haiku Vol. 29 No.2 Jun. Tamarack & Clearcut, Lee Gurga, 2 a.m./& the donut shop/light goes out, t.v. gunfire/the sleeping child's/eyelids flutter, a whiff of loam/and the sun on my neck/suddenly warm & with one foot out/a child considers/the moving-stairs
2001 Arc # 47 Winter The Trail Down the Page, Maxianne Berger, review of Scissor, Paper, Woman
2003 American Tanka No.13 Tanka and the Power of the Lyric Voice: An Interview with Marianne Bluger, Angela Leuck, daughter, at dawn as the mist, just one, in a ruined orchard, unbending, a drowning off Digby, where shoots, could you
2003 McGill News Fall Early Evening Pieces, Sarah Pringle, no poems quoted
2003 www.danforthreview.com Early Evening Pieces, Jennifer Dales, bagpipes wheeze, one little breeze, dusk, tulip buds tight
2004 Arc No.53 Winter Early Evening Pieces, Harold Rhenisch, cheerful mechanic & highway wind
2005 Gusts Spring/Summer No.1 For Marianne, with Love by Sanford Goldstein, the river/at the tips of our sandals/as we argue/keeps shifting/little pebbles; days now/of leaden skies/& of trying/to but not/getting any closer; mad I stalk off/down the road in teeming rain/& run out of steam/by a brook where plashing/cows seem quite content; one desolate night/I hurl his bitter note/right into the boxstove/it curls/& a rim of gold takes every word, could you/call it a lyric/this poem of a long-married couple/doing the cryptic together/in thin winter light? (from Gusts)

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TABLES OF CONTENT FOR BOOKS
 
The Thumbless Man is at the Piano - Three Trees Press - 1981
Poem Title Page Previous Credits
Enough to go on 7
The Nerve for Poems 8
The Lunatics 9
Still for S 10
Day drowns in night 11
Poem in the Fire 12
Do not settle into clay 13
In the Mode of E. Dickinson 14
Song of the Second 15
In late winter in Ontario 16 see 1976 - Periodicals
A Verse for the Aulde Bastarde 17
The clock keeps kicking away 18
Poem in Orange Ink 19 see 1976 - Periodicals
November 20
The Grosbeaks 21
Photograph 22
Swift as the shadow 23 see 1975 - Periodicals
Exchange 24 see 1977 - Periodicals
A live coal buried 25
For D. Who is Always Remembering 26 see 1976 - Periodicals
Salon Paris 1939 27 see 1976 - Periodicals
Gertrude Stein 28 see 1978 - Periodicals
Nightfruit 29
Pears 30
A Bestiary 31
On a Country Road 32
Dream 33
The Disciplines 34 see 1978 - Periodicals
A Poor Lecher's Poem for the Chaste 35
Psalm on a Summer Night 36
On Literature i 38
On Literature iii 39
Jungle Song 40
Bomb Poem for Rabbit 41
It's Him Again 43
Wet Day in Prescott 44
The Ring 46
The Widow and the Tulips 47
C (1) 48
Poem of the Wound 49
Praxis 50
Amulet 51
The White Pages 52
C (2) 53
Sonata 54
The End of the World 55
The Boarding 56
******  Credit in The Thumbless Man is at the Piano for work published in Waves not found ******

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On Nights Like This - Brick Books - 1984
Poem Title Page Previous Credits
On Nights Like This 11
5 a.m. 12 see Night Slinks Off, 1981 - Periodicals
Dance of the Turnips 13
Hanging from a Helium Balloon 14 see 1979 - Periodicals
Spring 15
The Thousandth Spring Would be the Same 16 see 1980 - Periodicals
Khishna-Shiva 17 see 1982 - Periodicals
Jagdip 1968 18 see 1981 - Periodicals
Shh, be quiet now 19
David 20
In the Station 21 see 1983 - Periodicals
You burn me     - Sappho 22
The Snowscape Puzzle 23
For R. Klibansky, Philosopher 24
Poem of Winter 25
The Hunt 26 see 1980 - Periodicals
Grandmother 27
a cataract of honey 28
As Though Lost in a Sleeve 29
She worked her bone hook 30
'Even his dreams are dreams of earth...' 31
Feb. 1982 32
At the Fair 33
The Heart the Sea 34 see 1980 - Periodicals
My Girl Cried Mother the Wind 36
The air is 37
The Ark and the Raft Gone Over 38
Night Travelling 39 see 1975? - Periodicals
****** Credits in On Nights Like This for work in Antigonish Review, New Oxford Review & Wee Giant were not found ******

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Gathering Wild - Brick Books - 1987
Poem Title Page Previous Credits
Bruises 11
On Bow Lake Road 12
Kevin's Jerusalem 13
On the Mall 14
In Early Summer 15
The Flute Player 16
Nun and Priest 17
In a Moment of Weakness 18
Canon Denton 19 see 1985 - Periodicals
Undersea 20
At Mooney's Bay 21
Declining the Patriarchy 22
For Jay Macpherson 24
In Broken Night 25
The Other Half 26
Wind 27
The Spinster Settler's Song 28
By Bricks 29 see 1985 - Periodicals
George in May 30
So 31
The Wave 32
Marja 33 see 1985 - Periodicals
The Poplars 34 see 1985 - Periodicals
The Treaties 35 see 1982 - Periodicals
Kenneth Patchen 36 see 1985 - Periodicals
Tom's Poem 37
In Oak 38
With Beast 39
Gathering Wild 40
Early Evening Psalm 41
Volo ut sis 42
A Birth 43
****** Credit in Gathering Wild for work in Alchemist, Antigonish Review, Boréal, Canadian Author & Bookman, Quarry, Skybreak, Wee Giant - not found ******

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Summer Grass - Brick Books - 1992
Section 1: The Midnight Gravities
Poem Title Page Previous Credits
The Ancestors 11
Good Friday 12 see 1979 - Periodicals (as Easter Poem)
The motor stopped in the sky 13
The Vistas 14
The Midnight Gravities 16
The Salmon 18 see 1990 - Periodicals
Mayakowsky Monk 20 see 1989 - Periodicals
Reply 21
Inarticulations 22 see 1992 - Periodicals
Alice's Moths 25
In October 27
Levertov 29 see 1992 - Periodicals
Atwood 31
Going Up She Said Descending 32 see 1992 - Periodicals
Tom Plays at Saint Margaret's 33
Imaginary Portrait of the Real George Johnston 34
Section 2: Into the Open
Poem Title Page Previous Credits
Before Dawn 37
Names of Yahweh 38
The End of the Absolute 39 see 1990 - Periodicals
The Gorge 40
Grace 42 see 2001 & 2002 - Anthologies (made into postcard)
When You Were Gone to the Gulf 43 see 1994 - Anthologies
Terminus I 44
Terminus II 45
Taking Down Night 46
Cellar 48
Hatty 49
Michaelmas 50
The Old Silver 51 see 1979 - Periodicals (as Full Moon)
Knowlten, P.Q. 52
In March 54
There's that 55
Present Things 56
Morning & Evening 57
Spring 59
Us 61
Liberated 62
Up By Ladysmith 63
Rain 64
In Richmond Fen 65 see 1991 - Periodicals
How We Are Judged by the Sun 66 see 1992 - Periodicals
Darkness Moving in Among the Trees 67
Grouping: Early Evening Pieces 68-9
wind in the long grass/and somebody/whistling 68 see 1980 - Periodicals, 1991 - Anthologies
through buzzing flies/the heifer's/steady gaze 68
shuffling home/just at twilight -- the veteran/with bones for his dog 68
except for Brahms/in the kitchen/no one 69
supper alone/letting the cat/lick my plate 69 see 1992 - Periodicals
creak of wicker/from a screened porch/village dusk 69 see 1991 - Periodicals
chores in rose twilight/the quiet/jostle of sheep 69
The Quarrel 70
The Moon Showed Up It Was Shining 71
Into the Open 72
Before We Go Back 73
The Pillow 74
****** Credit in Summer Grass for work published in Dragonfly, Haiku Canada Anthology, Valley, Waves - not found ******

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Tamarack & Clearcut - Carleton University Press - 1996
A collection of haiku by Marianne and photographs by Rudi Haas.
Section Section Title Page
I LEAFSMOKE 6
II WINTER DUSK 28
III LOAM 52
IV EARLY EVENING PIECES 72

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Gusts - Penumbra Press - 1999
A collection of haiku by Marianne and photographs by Rudi Haas.
Section Title Page
Preface xi
willow 15
east 27
sweet-grass 37
white moon road 53
the burial 61
invisible zero 65
the marriage cryptic 79
Tanka include (first line only): Ba-ba-boom, Gusts (see 1995), Tinkling, In the middle, The cosmetician (see 1997), Dark now (see 1997), Smoke this morning, Frost, In mid-winter, In my dressing gown, Daughter, Like a stranger (see 1995), Here goes, In harsh words, I dreamed, What to make, Past midnight, Just sitting, I see an old willow, All day/the mandala of shade, A water strider., Just one, No one living, The sun gone, At the darkening, All day/birding Grand Manan, The apples are in, Chewing an oyster, The air cools, Still Evangeline's, Under the moon, A drowning off Digby, Just like today, On these cold waves, In the gloming, On hay in the loft, & we pull away, In the cold shade (see 1995), The morning after, I saw, A thin man, Bodhidharma!, Turning and turning, Downtown a bald man, In robes I've starched, "Remain, Tipped off, Sunbathing, That mockingbird, Well I know now, Unbending, Up a tree, Augusta, On the night train, At last, At take-off, One desolate night, On my pitchfork, Just visiting (see 1997), Older, The furnace starts, You laugh & I see, The last passenger, An old Cree, At 3 a.m., Feverish (see 1997), In Harlem heat, A glorious sunset, Lighting, On Cape Cod, Again he takes my hand, In a motel mirror, Night falls, In a dusty field, Cajun rhythms, Shall we, Wind, The first night, Several languages (see 1994), Also falling on granite, It fades, In the rain, By the shed, February, In '67, Almost invisible, Some days, --- or a busker, --- or a lunatic, One big sweep (see 1995), In purple night, As I stitch, It's twilight, I seem to be emerging, Friday night, Through my binoculars, In the pre-dawn chill, The old moon, The footprints on sand, That racket?, The poet Marco, With the conference, It's worn a bit, At dawn as the mist, Alone on a gusty beach, Strapless (see 1995), & over there, It's a transplant, Also watching, Headed back (see 1998), Maybe because you've gone, The phone rings, All night (see 1997), Leaves rustle ---, All this long, Behind the drapes, Burning, Labour Day past, In a ruined orchard, Insomniac, Blackbird, April Fools, His forehead (see 1998), In my whole life, A hazy moon, Unable, First snow, Moon sheen (see 1995), Black twigs, In morning sun, Bronzed, Darkness deepens, Warblers, In moonlight ghostly, By the cedar, In a sort of May fit, A bittern calling, Still owling, You left, Mad I stalk off, Backing out, Remember that, Husband, We're in the dark, Bright asterisks ---, The river, From a dream of lostness, Just us again, At high noon, Days now, We are only details, Resting our oars, Among potted palms, Fleeing city lights, Like a guernsey, In the heat, As we hike a trail, Chores done, Intimate, One day, --- later a cuckoo, Could you
****** Credit in Gusts for work published in Raw Nervz, Lynx and Night Station - not found (Dasoku sequence - 1997 - included some of the tanka in Gusts) ******

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Scissor, Paper, Woman - Penumbra Press - 2000
Section 1: For the Reader
Poem Title Page Previous Credits
The Very Spot 11
Section 2: Night Station
Poem Title Page Previous Credits
A Girl with Hair 14
Night Station 16
Scissor, Paper, Woman 18
Further News of the Spinster Settler 19
The Shield 22
In the Alley 23
Therapy 25
Another for the Auld Bastard 26
The Zen Master's Wife 27
Section 3: Nude with Scar
Poem Title Page Previous Credits
What Happened to the Body Then 32
In March 33
Nude with Scar 34
By Bluffs 35
Terrified Ode 36
Porchlight 37
The Letter 38
The Sky a Salmon River 40
Section 4: The Red Rim
Poem Title Page Previous Credits
Beach with Jenny Missing 44
The Savourers 45
The Red Rim 46
Louise in the Kitchen 51
Godzero the Gorilla (Metro Zoo) 53
Izumi Shikibu 55
Section 5: Present Things
Poem Title Page Previous Credits
Present Things 58
The Shoestore 60
At the Drycleaners 61
Blesse 63
Avison 64
Celadon 67
Gulf 68
Skin 69
In Albion Daylight 70
Death Seated 73
After Stein 74
In April 75

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Early Evening Pieces - BuschekBooks - 2003
Section Section Title Page
I SWEETGRASS 9
II HIGHWAY WIND 17
III FLIGHT 25
IV GOLDENROD & ASTERS 31
V SNOWBLIND 39
VI GUSTS 49
VII ANNAPOLIS 61
VIII QUILT 69
IX DUNEGRASS 75

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Zen Mercies / Small Satoris - Penumbra Press - 2005
Section Title Page
PREFACE 10
REAL AS A DREAM 11
SHE POEMS / MARBLE VENUS 17
ANNAPOLIS 24
WRITING LIFE 29
THE SILENCE AFTER 33
HIGHWAY WIND 35
THE HEAT 40
A PLUNGE OF SKY 44
MAGNOLIA 54
HINGE OF A BOOK SPINE - IZUMI / SHIKI / MOKICHI 56
SAVAGE SPRING 61

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The Eternities - St. Thomas Poetry Series - 2005
Section 1: The Ancestors
Poem Title Page Previous Credits
Names of Yahweh 7
His Dreams 8
The Eternities 9
Levertov 12
In the Station 14
It's Him Again 15
On a Country Road 16
The Poplars 17
Night Station 18
The Crime 20
Inarticulations 22
The Ancestors 25
Section 2: The Midnight Gravities
Poem Title Page Previous Credits
The Midnight Gravities 27
Sasha 31
Who 34
In October 35
Pears 37
Man in a Rented Room 39
in a dark window 41
Dad with Book 42
Before Dawn 44
The Bridge 45
Section 3: The Dust in Bright Air
Poem Title Page Previous Credits
The Burial 49
Invocation on a Windy Night 51
My Father's Head 52
The Everlasting Arms 54
The Silence After 55
Good Friday 57
A Dogma of Our Times 58
Woodsmoke 59
The Dust in Bright Air 60
In Albion Daylight 62

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Nude with Scar - Penumbra Press - 2006
Section 1: AFTERNOON REPORT TO THE STATE
Poem Title Page Previous Credits
AFTERNOON REPORT TO THE STATE 7
Section 2: BORN TO BIRD
Poem Title Page Previous Credits
THE MARRIAGE 9
BIRDING THE BREAK-UP 10
BIRDING HAIKU & TANKA 12
BIRD STATUS LINE REPORT 13
THE MAGNET 14
THREE AT MUD LAKE 15
GEOFFREY'S CAT 17
ODE TO BIRDWATCHING 18
THE MIGRANTS 19
WHY ALL MY WORDS ARE FOOLISHNESS 20
QUETZEL QUEST 21
AT THIRTY BELOW 22
SOARING 23
Section 3: SNAPSHOTS
Poem Title Page Previous Credits
ADORARABLE AUNTIE 25
HAIKU & TANKA 1 27
QUEBEC 32
HAIKU & TANKA 2 33
Section 4: PORTRAITS
Poem Title Page Previous Credits
JIM 39
NOWLAN 40
LOUIS 41
CANON DENTON 42
TWO CHARACTERS FROM A FUTURE QUEBEC HISTORY 43
SNOW-HAIRED WOMEN 44
IN FEBRUARY 45
GIORGIO 46
JUSTICE FREDDY ABLEDEE 47
WOMAN RECLINING 48
IN A FORGOTTEN TENSE 49
MAJI & ME 51
DOMINIC 52
THE GRADUATE 53
GRIMM'S GIRL 54
SHIFT 55
THE WIFE 56
BY THE SHED 57
RUTH 58
ARCHIE SKILLINGS 59
TIM NEAR ARDEN 60
HER MAJESTY 61
THUS & SO    JOHN TULL 62
FLORID & GILT 63
THE YOUNG POETS LATER 64
BEAST 65
LOUISE or INVISIBLE CACTUS 66
THE POLITICIAN AS A SPRING DOG MOON 67
THE BLUE SOFA 68
MATSUDA 69
THE HARE 71
NUDE WITH SCAR 72
NOT LOST 74
THE END 75
AGNES AND THE ANGELS 76
DAISY 78
Start with the ape 79
ESTER 80
Saw myself in a hall of mirrors 81
INSTEAD OF TWILIGHT 82
THREE CANARIES 83
ALLAN 84
MIKE WITH PERCH 85
NOTE FOR KATE 86
MIRIAM'S NIGHT WALK 87
VENTURERS 90
REPLY 91

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