Victor Enns is not a soldier, yet he has been speaking with Canadian soldiers since 2007 through these poems, and directly in interviews with Canadian soldiers back from Afghanistan (from 2008 - 2009). Enns traveled to Kabul in May 2008 to get a sense of the landscape, the people and the Canadian mission in Afghanistan. Victor Enns has written a collection of voice poems that are relentless and genuine in telling soldiers stories. The title may imply that all soldiers have something to confess, yet few of us will ever have to shoulder the burden of taking another human life, or seeing the death and destruction common to all wars. Afghanistan Confessions is one of the first authentic literary accounts of this devastating war.

Victor Enns was born in Winnipeg in 1955 and raised in southern Manitoba. He graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1979 with a History/English major including the advanced creative writing workshop with Robert Kroetsch, which led to the publication of his first poetry collection, Jimmy Bang Poems (Turnstone 1979). A founding Board member of the Manitoba Writers' Guild, he was the Executive Director of the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild from 1982 - 1988 and founder of Windscript magazine featuring the literary and visual art of Saskatchewan high school students. Correct in this Culture (5th House) was published in 1985. He spent the next 20 years in arts administration and raising a family taking time out to found Rhubarb magazine, a literary and visual arts magazine for writers and artists of Mennonite descent in 1998, returning as executive editor in 2012. His most recent collection, Afghanistan Confessions, poems in the voices of Canadian soldiers, was released in November 2014. Boy, was published by Hagios Press in Regina in 2012. Lucky Man, (Hagios, 2005) was nominated for the McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year Award.

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