The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2018

by Hoa Nguyen (Editor), Anita Lahey (Editor), Amanda Jernigan (Editor)

Overview

In his latest collection, Shane Neilson surveys his homeland, mapping the many contours of history—political, social, personal, and spiritual—and considering the ways we shape and are shaped by the land. Formally inventive and linguistically rich, New Brunswick grapples with the weight of legacies both political and familial, charting both the province and the heart.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781988040448
Publisher:	Tightrope Books, Inc.
Publication date:	10/01/2018
Series:	Best Canadian Poetry in English Series
Pages:	170
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Amanda Jernigan was born in southern Ontario. As an adult she has lived in Ontario, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland. She is the author of two books of poetry, Groundwork and All the Daylight Hours; of the prose book Living in the Orchard: The Poetry of Peter Sanger; and of the libretto for Years, Months, and Days, by Colin Labadie. She edited The Essential Richard Outram and co-edited Earth and Heaven: An Anthology of Myth Poetry. Anita Lahey is a poet, journalist, reviewer and essayist. She is the author of The Mystery Shopping Cart: Essays on Poetry and Culture (Palimpsest Press, 2013) and of two Véhicule Press poetry collections: Out to Dry in Cape Breton (2006) and Spinning Side Kick (2011). The former was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and the Ottawa Book Award. Anita is a former editor of Arc Poetry Magazine, and posts occasionally on her blog, "Henrietta & Me: People and other wonders found in books." Hoa Nguyen was born in the Mekong Delta, raised in the Washington, DC area, and lives in Toronto. From Wave Books, her poetry collections include As Long As Trees Last, Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008, and Violet Energy Ingots, nominated for a 2017 Griffin Prize for poetry. She teaches poetics at Ryerson University, for Miami University’s low residency MFA program, for the Milton Avery School for Fine Arts at Bard College, and in a long-running, private workshop.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Shane Neilson

“Shane Neilson’s Meniscus is an example of that rare and defining moment in a poet’s career when subject and language meld into authentic poetic voice.” —Winnipeg Free Press

“Neilson’s ability to make the bipolar mind comprehensible, a place that needs to be understood, in ‘Manic Statement’ is perhaps the book’s greatest success. It never lapses into cliché and even manages to slip in a bit of wit.” —Canadian Literature

“Neilson’s use of language is stark, but this off-kilter beauty is arresting . . . Although the territory Neilson covers in his debut tradebook is undoubtedly dark, there are still many worthwhile moments to be forged in its depths.” —Northern Poetry Review

“[Neilson] dares to dream.” —The Prairie Journal

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