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 | Chad NormanChad Norman poems have appeared for nearly 40 years in literary publications across Canada, as well as a number of other countries around the world, and also translated into Albanian, Spanish, Polish, Chinese, Turkish, Italian, and Portugese. He hosts and organizes RiverWords: Poetry & Music Festival each year in Truro, NS., held at Riverfront Park, the 2nd Saturday of each July. In October 2016 he was invited by the Nordic Assn. for Canadian Studies to give talks on Canadian Poetry and read from his books at Borupgaard Gym in Copenhagen, and Risskov Gym in Aarhus, as well as other readings in both cities, and Malmo, Sweden. Because of that tour Norman has started the manuscript, Counting Coins In Denmark And Sweden. In October of 2017 he read at various Eastern Canada venues in Kingston, Ottawa, and Montreal, reading poems from his Selected and New collection, published by Mosaic Press (Oakville, ON). In October of 2018 he read at various types of venues from universities to cafes to pubs throughout Ireland, Scotland, Wales, while there he visited Swansea and slept three nights in the room where Dylan Thomas was born. A celebration of Canadian Poetry took place during this tour too. His most recent books are Simona: A Celebration Of The S.P.C.A., out 2021 from Cyberwit. Net Press (India), and Squall: Poems In The Voice of Mary Shelley, out 2020 from Guernica Editions (Toronto). And a new book, A Matter Of Inclusion, is due out 2022 from Mwanaka Media And Publishing ( Zimbabwe).
He is currently a member of The League Of Canadian Poets. | |
| | | | | | | | Joy Forest by Chad Norman It happened there!
All the days before this onewhen chipmunks finally returned,gave the soul in me the visitsI have thanked them forsom | | | Fiona Was An Occasional Failure by Chad Norman for the people of Truro, Autumn 2022
A certain Nova Scotia cemeterywithstood a certain hurricane;not a hillside tree was harmed,only the odd limb or two | | | Evolution, Say It With Me by Chad Norman A view is gone...all empty branches ready to adorntheir young, twigs.
In them, in bark,the sky wants,has sent the advice.
Spring brings in budsn | |
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| | Woman Sitting In A Chair Wearing A White Poppy by Chad Norman for the Syrian poet, Nour Nasra
By the border of my unknowingI stood ready, always ready,to admit to it, unknowing,the border where I stood byw | | | Even Though We Could Be Ended by Chad Norman for Halyna Kruk, Ukrainian poet
Someone\'s uninjured handhas not placed it there,the lonely stonewith a white veinacross its sea-strewn face. | | | How To Know I Am A Human by Chad Norman for the families in Ukraine
Under a sky deciding to be bluea yellow piece of plasticbecomes trappedin a neighbour\'s fence.
When the world provides | | | | | |
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