Methodist Hatchet

Methodist Hatchet PDF Author: Ken Babstock
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 1770891587
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Trillium Book Award Marooned in the shiftless, unnamed space between a map of the world and a world of false maps, the poems in Methodist Hatchet cling to what’s necessary from each, while attempting to sing their own bewilderment. Carolinian forest echoes back as construction cranes in an urban skyline. Second Life returns as wildlife, as childhood. Even the poem itself -- the idea of a poem -- as a unit of understanding is shadowed by a great unknowing. Fearless in its language, its trajectories and frames of reference, Methodist Hatchet gazes upon the objects of its attention until they rattle and exude their auras of strangeness. It is this strangeness, this mysterious stillness, that is the big heart of Ken Babstock’s playful, fierce, intelligent book.

Methodist Hatchet

Methodist Hatchet PDF Author: Ken Babstock
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 1770891587
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Book Description
Shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Trillium Book Award Marooned in the shiftless, unnamed space between a map of the world and a world of false maps, the poems in Methodist Hatchet cling to what’s necessary from each, while attempting to sing their own bewilderment. Carolinian forest echoes back as construction cranes in an urban skyline. Second Life returns as wildlife, as childhood. Even the poem itself -- the idea of a poem -- as a unit of understanding is shadowed by a great unknowing. Fearless in its language, its trajectories and frames of reference, Methodist Hatchet gazes upon the objects of its attention until they rattle and exude their auras of strangeness. It is this strangeness, this mysterious stillness, that is the big heart of Ken Babstock’s playful, fierce, intelligent book.

Dictionary of Newfoundland English

Dictionary of Newfoundland English PDF Author: George Morley Story
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802068194
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 858

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First published in 1982 to international acclaim, the Dictionary of Newfoundland English introduced the world to an incredibly rich dialect with deep roots in Ireland and the English West Country.

The Iambics of Newfoundland

The Iambics of Newfoundland PDF Author: Robert Finch
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458755320
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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In these evocative sketches, stories, and essays, one of our finest observers of the natural world explores the stunning but often dangerously inhospitable island of Newfoundland. Channeling rather than overwhelming his subject, Finch's caring han...

The 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology

The 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology PDF Author: Heather McHugh
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 1770891943
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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The best books of poetry published in English internationally and in Canada are honoured each year with the $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world's most prestigious and valuable literary awards. Since 2001 this annual prize has acted as a tremendous spur to interest in and recognition of poetry, focusing worldwide attention on the formidable talent of poets writing in English. The judges for the 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize are Heather McHugh, David O'Meara, and Fiona Sampson. And each year the editor of The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology gathers the work of the extraordinary poets shortlisted for the awards and introduces us to some of the finest poems in their collections. Royalties generated from The 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology will be donated to UNESCO's World Poetry Day, which was created to support linguistic diversity through poetic expression and to offer endangered languages the opportunity to be heard in their communities.

The Methodist Quarterly Review

The Methodist Quarterly Review PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church and the world
Languages : en
Pages : 788

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Census of Newfoundland and Labrador

Census of Newfoundland and Labrador PDF Author: Newfoundland Colonial secretary's office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labrador (N.L.)
Languages : en
Pages : 620

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Census of Newfoundland and Labrador, 1921

Census of Newfoundland and Labrador, 1921 PDF Author: Newfoundland. Colonial Secretary's Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labrador (N.L.)
Languages : en
Pages : 612

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John Clare

John Clare PDF Author: Simon Kövesi
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349591831
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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This book investigates what it is that makes John Clare’s poetic vision so unique, and asks how we use Clare for contemporary ends. It explores much of the criticism that has appeared in response to his life and work, and asks hard questions about the modes and motivations of critics and editors. Clare is increasingly regarded as having been an environmentalist long before the word appeared; this book investigates whether this ‘green’ rush to place him as a radical proto-ecologist does any disservice to his complex positions in relation to social class, work, agriculture, poverty and women. This book attempts to unlock Clare’s own theorisations and practices of what we might now call an ‘ecological consciousness’, and works out how his ‘ecocentric’ mode might relate to that of other Romantic poets. Finally, this book asks how we might treat Clare as our contemporary while still being attentive to the peculiarities of his unique historical circumstances.

Swivelmount

Swivelmount PDF Author: Ken Babstock
Publisher: Coach House Books
ISBN: 177056649X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 118

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Poems to read in the small hours before dawn, when the sirens start up again. Swivelmount’s concerns – the collapse of subject and world, eros and law, knowledge and bafflement – gain new urgency as Babstock fiercely reimagines and reassembles the remnants into a viable order. At the core of their kinetic imagery is a freefall into mourning, but also a faith in others: a Babstock poem is the voice next to you in the ER waiting room, becalmed, compassionate, darkly humorous. This is Babstock at his best. Past Praise: “This is a poetry that is so uncompromising in how it deals with traditions – of poetic forms, of dictions, of militaristic histories – that it becomes something magnificent: brittle and hard. It will change how you think.” —Juliana Spahr for On Malice “On Malice is a fascinating and elegiac rebuke to surveillance technologies and its discontents. Ken Babstock is a wonderful and spirited poet. His work is full of musicality, syncopation, wit, and formal acuity.” —Peter Gizzi “The flavour of this poetry is complex – it will have to be consumed in small amounts like a sipping tequila. It inebriates quickly. It imparts a convivial brilliance to life. And it is not without its sinister edge.” —Ange Mlinko for Methodist Hatchet “I felt as if I were reading poems written with a scalpel. Methodist Hatchet swaggers with confidence, intelligence, technique, humour, and that pinioning accuracy of observation we’ve come to expect from Babstock, surely one of the most versatile, switched-on, and linguistically savvy poets of our time.” —Simon Armitage “Methodist Hatchet is as precise as it is expansive, as complex as it is companionable. It refuses to look away from the unstable nature of self and world and word. That is why Babstock is one of the most exciting lyric poets writing today.” —Sina Queyras, The Globe and Mail for Methodist Hatchet

On Malice

On Malice PDF Author: Ken Babstock
Publisher: Coach House Books
ISBN: 1552453049
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 97

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On Malice is watching you—new poems about and by surveillance, from Griffin-winning Ken Babstock.