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      • 0.1 Intro
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Deborah Bowen

Deborah Bowen has lived in Canada now for half her life, but the first half, in England, still feels culturally and geographically more grounded than the second. Deborah teaches English literature at a small liberal arts college in southwestern Ontario, and regularly reviews Canadian poetry, especially poetry that concerns itself with the relationship between people and the natural world.

The long way home
EssayJuly 6, 2016

The long way home

By Deborah Bowen

When I first immigrated from England to southern Ontario, I felt as if I’d moved from a human-sized land to a land that needed…

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About Topology

Topology Magazine

Topology Magazine is a place for active contemplation through prose, poetry, and art: the produce of thoughtful labor in the places where we find ourselves. Each person is inextricably tied to their physical location, and Topology cultivates that connection by publishing work which explicitly or implicitly recognizes the influence of place. Read more …

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  • Raechelle Kennedy
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  • Elisabeth McClanahan
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