This Brighter Prison

In her first book of poetry since The Small Words in My Body, which won the Pat Lowther Prize for 1990, Karen Connelly writes, in the tradition of the writer-adventurer, of vivid encounters and reflections abroad and at home, continuing her pursuit of “living knowledge of the world.” These poems enact journeys of the body and heart with candour and sensuous grace, catching the very texture of human experience in the lithe, muscular lines which have a cat-like metaphorical reach.

AUTHOR

Karen Connelly

Karen Connelly is the author of nine books of award-winning poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. She has received the Orange Broadband New Writers Prize, the Governor General’s Award, and has been shortlisted for BC National Award for Nonfiction. Her work has been published and translated in North America, Britain and Asia. She lives in Toronto, ON.

Reviews

” … I found Connelly’s tendency to pump up the volume quite refreshing … enough boldness and passion to stir the sensualist in any reader.”–Barbara Carey, Books in Canada

“The experience of life that runs in and beneath these poems is unusual for a woman of twenty-three… This is a writer to savor, and to watch.”–Patricia Morely, Canadian Book Review Annual

“Perhaps what is so appealing about Connelly’s poems is that they present so clearly the impression of a haunted person, moving warily between the perceptions of the moment and the memories of the past … poems that appeal to all of the faculties.”–Robert Attridge, NeWest Review