A poem timed to our internal clocks, a poem in perpetual remove, in preposterous love.
A poem-by-poem revisioning and engagement with Sylvia Plath’s Ariel and the towering mythology surrounding it.
In this much-anticipated new collection, poet and musician Gary Barwin both continues and extends the alchemical collision of language.
Poems to read in the small hours before dawn, when the sirens start up again.
Steve Venright, the true heir to the literary legacy of Henri Michau, Christopher Dewdney and Jorge Luis Borges, is the only surrealist ever to come from Sarnia, Ontario. Spiral Agitator,... Læs mere
"Walk thrice where thieves are hanged. Iron your own shirt." With the prisms of varied vocabularies refracting detail and language, the author illuminates the intricacies of communication. She invokes the vocabulary of the institution - the airport, the hospital.
Quill pen, linotype, computer: does how you write affect what you write? This book spurns the sentence and woos the phrase, the image and the language of printing, weaving fragments together to address the question of how publishing and printing affect writing.
Drawing on texts ranging from Thorstein Veblen's groundbreaking "The Theory of the Leisure Class" to "Star Wars" (the nerd Bible) for inspiration, this suite of poems documents the tribulations and insecurities of one's inner geek.