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HAMISH BALLANTYNE Imitation Crab

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was drunk not

dreaming and thought will write

to this

  friend/to that

What arose next

day won’t smoke

  Wild eye in the mens

who can remember


HAMISH BALLANTYNE IMITATION CRAB

Poetry. Chapbook. ISBN: 978-1-989355-26-8


Hamish Ballantyne's Imitation Crab is the speechlessness that settles three days into a road trip, the groan of human language tearing half apart from nature. Its pleasures have their lineage in Zen poetry's precision and Lorine Niedecker's vivid work of condensery; they tumble in cascades of tight unlikelinesses; they bite down hard on the tongue of the Moment in the mouth of Gabriola Island lingo. I invite you to "fall down the / flower of / THE WAY HE SPOKE."


Hamish Ballantyne (b. 1994) is a poet and translator from Vancouver Island. He works seasonally as a mushroom picker and works on the Downtown Eastside the rest of the year. Hamish recently completed a translation of Luis de Góngora's Solitudes.  


Cover: Kirby

Design: r. kolewe

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