Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read an excerpt from “A Hundred Times” by Todd Meyers, from Gone Gone (Duke University Press Books 2025), shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Due to its formatting, this poem is only available as an image.

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A Hundred Times (excerpt)

By Todd Meyers

From Gone Gone

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Copyright © Todd Meyers

From Gone Gone (Duke University Press Books 2025), shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award.

Todd Meyers is a writer and anthropologist living in Montreal. He teaches at McGill University where he is a professor and the Marjorie Bronfman Chair in Social Studies of Medicine. Gone Gone is his first book of poetry. Of the book’s genre, Molly Young in The New York Times writes, “Good luck to the brave librarians tasked with determining a shelf for this marvel!” She goes on: “In tender and photographic prose, Meyers documents and dilates upon the lives of three people (or characters?)—their loves, jokes, overdoses, shoplifting convictions, childhoods, joys, losses. Over the past two decades we’ve seen a great deal of excellent reporting and fiction on the mass casualty event that is opioid addiction; this is the first account I’ve found that must be respirated rather than read.” Gone Gone was a finalist for the 2025 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. Todd is currently completing a book about belonging and hate-related violence in rural America.

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