In December 2005, stalled on a novel he was writing, George Bowering thought he needed a challenge. By the end of the year he had made a New Year's resolution: write a poem a day for the 365 days of 2006. While working on Crows in the Wind , in January, he decided each monthly sequence should have a rule: something for the writing to attend to. So for February, each day's piece had to have one sentence and two stanzas, then off he went; inventing...