This has to be one of the most anticipated poetry releases of the year?
Steffler, a poet laureate of Canada and a definite Canadian favourite, gave us the unforgettable, remarkbale, and highly accalimed The Grey Islands, Helix, and That Night We Were Ravenous, among others. Lookout is in stores this week.
From the Backcover: ”As always, his poems inhabit experience fully, senses on high alert, transmitting the abundance and turbulence of physical existence; they are charged with the raw Eros of being … emotionally candid, brimming with energy … Many of the poems in Lookout explore and evoke specific landscapes … others dwell on personal relationships: lover, pregnant daughter, and a touching, finely tuned sequence on a family coping with a mother’s Alzheimer’s.”
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Pat: corrections made. I was thrown for a loop because it does say, in bold letters on that back of Lookout, “The first collection of new poems in more than a decade from one of Canada’s most respected poets.” So I ignored that part of me feeling like that wasn’t right and assumed everything since were reprints or anthologies, etc … Right you are.
His “Helix: New And Selected Poems” was published in 2002.
“The Grey Islands” was originally published in 1985 and was reissued in 2000.
His last new full-length collection was “That Night We Were Ravenous” (2008).