Iin her latest work, Flowers We Will Never Know the Names Of (Mother Tongue, $18.95) Cathy Ford marks the 25th anniversary of Montreal's L'école Polytechnique massacres in a long poem written in the language of flowers and an alphabet re-imagined. It is a momento of love amidst violence and loss.

Cathy Ford was president of the League of Canadian Poets in 1985 and 1986, and was a founding member of the League's Feminist Caucus in 1982. From 1984 to 1986 she was a member of a national task force of Women and Words, working to create a draft constitution for a Canadian association of Women and Words. She was also a member of the board of directors of the Literary Storefront from 1980 to 1982.

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