Hearthedral

“whatever words meant/has filligreed & transmutated” writes Phil Hall; his new Brick book marks an important shift in his writing. The fascinating leaps of Hall’s language in Hearthedral may be a surprise to readers familiar with his other work, but his uncompromising honesty, his willingness to face sorrow and self remain constant. What emerges is profound and beautiful, difficult and homely: a “folk-hermetic.”

AUTHOR

Phil Hall

Phil Hall is a writer, editor, and teacher. His first book, Eighteen Poems, was published in 1973. Among his many published titles are: Old Enemy Juice (1988); The Unsaid (1992); Hearthedral–A Folk-Hermetic (1996); An Oak Hunch (2005); White Porcupine (Book*hug, 2007); Killdeer (Book*hug, 2011; winner of the 75th Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry and the Trillium Book Prize, and shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize); Small Nouns Crying Faith (Book*hug, 2013); Guthrie Clothing: The Poetry of Phil Hall, a Selected Collage (2015); and My Banjo and Tiny Drawings (2015). Hall has taught writing at York University, Ryerson University, Seneca College, George Brown College, and elsewhere. Phil lives with his wife near Perth, Ontario.