Leslie Timmins
Leslie Timmins (she, her) is a poet, editor and activist whose work has been published in Canada, the US and the UK and has been shortlisted for the Montréal International Poetry Prize. Her poetry collection, Every Shameless Ray (Inanna 2018), traces a fine disorder of possibility through wilderness, art, illness and love. New poems appear in Vallum, in the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council's Covid and Poetry project, and in an upcoming anthology by Caitlin Press about the endangered Westcoast forests. Leslie is currently preparing a manuscript from work written over the last five years, with poems that range from the anguish of childhood rape to the ‘gateless gate’ of our own formless radiant nature.
To the fathers who do not abuse their daughters
On my street I am witness to the young men who carry the pink-flowered backpacks of little girls, who stoop to listen to their newsy plotless...
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To the fathers who do not abuse their daughters
On my street I am witness to the young men who carry the pink-flowered backpacks of little girls, who...
