The Infinite Park

By (author): Peter Unwin

Occurring in the rooms and corridors where life is lived, these poems emerge from the spaces behind the sofa cushion where things get lost, and in the bedroom where people inhale and exhale together. The Infinite Park documents the ways each day comes undone, and celebrates the tireless minute-by-minute heroics required to put it back together. Honouring the labours of love and confusion, these poems pursue a language of the commonplace, of memories that are kept in boxes, of the family bed where the cats and kids gather, and where words spoken and the warm presence of loved others become indistinguishable from the day.

With his second collection Peter Unwin further develops a verse the Malahat Review praised for its “sardonic clarity … forever tempered by a deeper caring.” These pages vibrate with moments in which life’s fullness is found in its seemingly empty and random places, and spoken in a language of plain necessity.

AUTHOR

Peter Unwin

Peter Unwin is the author of numerous books, including Life Without Death, shortlisted for the 2014 Trillium Book Award. He lives with his family in Toronto.

Awards

  • ReLit Award – Poetry 2022, Short-listed
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    Dimensions:

    96 Pages
    8.5in * 5.5in * .40in
    200gr

    Published:

    April 26, 2021

    City of Publication:

    Toronto

    Country of Publication:

    CA

    Publisher:

    Cormorant Books

    ISBN:

    9781770866065

    Book Subjects:

    POETRY / Canadian

    Language:

    eng

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