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Sep 11, 2007 | ISBN 9780771082665 Buy
Feb 24, 2009 | ISBN 9781551992242 Buy
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Sep 11, 2007 | ISBN 9780771082665
Feb 24, 2009 | ISBN 9781551992242
A beautiful new edition of the award-winning collection from Canada’s new Poet Laureate.Newfoundland-born poet John Steffler is one of this country’s most accomplished writers. Recently named Canada’s national poet, he is the author of The Grey Islands (poems) and the award-winning novel The Afterlife of George Cartwright, both of which have become classics in our time.That Night We Were Ravenous is Steffler’s most recent book of new poetry. In this extraordinary gathering of poems, he follows the trajectory of some of his earlier work with poems situated in Newfoundland’s coves, on trails, and in communities that testify to the pure bite and edge of this terrain. Other poems in the later sections of the book, more intimate, are set in Southern Ontario and Greece.This is poetry that captures the imagination and activates the heart. Simply by looking through Steffler’s eyes, we come away with an enlarged sense of the natural world on the one hand, and of our own humanity on the other.
JOHN STEFFLER is the author of six books of poetry, including Lookout, which was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, The Grey Islands and That Night We Were Ravenous. His novel The Afterlife of George Cartwright won the Smithbooks/Books in… More about John Steffler
Winner of the Atlantic Poetry Prize“John Steffler is Canada’s most sensuously passionate writer. Reading him, we are put in touch with the pure erotic draw which the world exercises upon him. The acuity of his perception, and the size of his heart, make his poems an essential part of our literature.” — Don McKay“The range of poetic tone in this book, and the precision of its language, articulates why John Steffler is one of our most evocative poets.” — Ross Leckie, New Brunswick Telegraph Journal
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