James Langer’s heralded debut collection of poems — championed by Anne Simpson as “fierce, charged poetry” — has just been shortlisted for what might be Canada’s most flattering poetry award for a first collection: The Gerald Lampert Award. Doled out by The League of Canadian Poets, this award recognizes “the best first book of poetry published by a Canadian in the preceding year.”
Selected Praise for Langer’s Gun Dogs
“Assured and mature . . . striking [in] it’s range of allusion, tone, and form . . . accomplished and entertaining.”
- Quill & Quire
“A spectacular mouthful . . . musically alert, with marvellous rhythmic and tonal variety . . Langer has a knack for finding words that, placed together, crackle and buzz.”
- Globe and Mail
“Poetry at its best. . . . Gun Dogs – lyrical magical, feisty – provides that firm tug on the sleeve that wrests us from complacency.”
- The Daily Gleaner
Listen to “Thug and Gull” from Gun Dogs (clip courtesy of Anansi):
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