Nick Thran

Nick Thran is the author of two collections of poems. His most recent collection, Earworm (Nightwood Editions, 2011), won the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. Halifax Hal, a children’s poem with illustrations by Gabe Foreman, will appear as a small book with Bayeux Arts later this year. He currently lives in Montreal.

The Particular Melon

Walid was making a film about a particular
honeydew melon. This melon, he said,
pointing to the table littered with back issues

of The Economist, a Blackberry Pearl, assorted
suspiciously pigmented...