Mole by Patrick Warner (Anansi)
- Warner is a distinct voice, levity-laden in places, poignant in others, who can make the mundane relevant, revere the overlooked, and impart meaning on the trivial. Clever and engaging.
- “A comically vulnerable, tender collection … Whether the narrator is standing in line for the newest Nicole Kidman movie or lounging on a snowbird holiday, the ordinary becomes extraordinary when seen through Warner’s rose-coloured, resort-town lenses.”
- Winnipeg Free Press
- Patrick has won the E. J. Pratt Poetry Award, and was shortlisted for the Newfoundland & Labrador book award as well as the Atlantic Poetry Prize. Mole is his third collection of poetry.
“Warner’s poems can be comical, tender, brutal, or any combination of the above … they are always enlightening in their implied connections, sublime in their musical inventiveness.”
- Sunday Independent
Track & Trace by Zacharia Wells (Biblioasis)
- Currently on the shortlist for the esteemed Atlantic Poetry Prize.
The poems in this striking (also visually striking) collection of poetry have been published in eight journals, including Riddle Fence, The New Quarterly, and The Fiddlehead, in several anthologies and chapbooks, and on various elite websites, like The National Post’s The Afterword, and P.E.I. Poet Laureates’ website.
“[A poet] with the intelligence to make use of unusual material … his command of language, his awareness of imagery, his eye and his ear to make something more of the material. Why is this so rare?”
- Sharon McCartney, The Fiddlehead.
From the publisher: The poems in Zachariah Wells’s second collection range from childhood to dimly foreseen events in the future; they idle on all three of Canada’s coasts [and use] an eclectic array of techniques and forms, from haiku to a crown of sonnets.
Against the Hard Angle by Matt Robinson (ECW Press)
There’s a fierceness to these poems; a confidently wild use of langauge. The poems pop off the page with the same fervour in which Robinson has written them.
- Written in two sections: the first is primarily a long poem, which won the 2009 Malahat Review Long Poem Award, is a “meditative catalogue of relationship breakwdown and divorce.” The second section consists of shorter poems in various forms. This is Robinson’s fourth colelction of poetry.
- “Precisely what poetry should be: evocative, detailed, and fresh.”
- Canadian Literature
“Consistently a master of nifty phrasing.”
- The Toronto Star
- Matt has been published worldwide in countless journals and ten different anthologies, and has been shortlisted for various awards, including the ReLit award and the Lampert Award. His list of award wins includes: The Petra Kenney International Poetry Prize, Grain Magazine’s Prose Poem Award, and 2009’s Malahat Review Long Poem Prize.
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