Copyright © 2012 Naomi McIlwraith

Second printing 2012

Published by AU Press, Athabasca University

1200, 10011 – 109 Street, Edmonton, AB T5J 3S8

ISBN 978-1-926836-69-0 (print) 978-1-926836-70-6 (PDF) 978-1-926836-71-3 (epub)

A volume in Mingling Voices

ISSN 1917-9405 (print) 1917-9413 (online)

Cover and interior design by Natalie Olsen, Kisscut Design.

Printed and bound in Canada by Marquis Book Printers.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

McIlwraith, Naomi L.

Kiyâm : poems / by Naomi McIlwraith.

(Mingling voices, ISSN 1917-9405)

Issued also in electronic formats.

Includes some text in Cree.

ISBN 978-1-926836-69-0

I. Title. II. Series: Mingling voices

PS8625.I49K59 2012 C811’.6 C2012-901021-9

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