Undercurrents

Contributions by: Amanda Jernigan, E. Blagrave, Sarah Feldman, Hamish Guthrie, Michael Lithgow, George Pakodzi, Alex Pierce, Jason Ranon Uri Rotstein, Kay Weber, Margo Wheaton

Edited by: Robyn Sarah

Undercurrents: New Voices in Canadian Poetry is an introduction to the work of eleven poets who have not yet published full collections of their own, but whose poems have been making their way into print in Canada and abroad.


The poems have been hand-picked by editor Robyn Sarah both for their qualities as individual poems and for the ensemble they create. Each selection has been compiled with a view to showing the poet’s range, yet each is also sequenced so that the poems work effectively as a suite.


The contributors’ ages span five decades, bringing to bear the perspectives and concerns of different life stages. This is not the latest crop of MFAs in Creative Writing, but a foraged gathering of eleven strongly individual poets coming from different regions, different backgrounds, and different walks of life. What they have in common is their uncommon ability to explore our shared human condition in words that resonate.


Featuring:


E. Blagrave
Sarah Feldman
Hamish Guthrie
Amanda Jernigan
Daniel Karasik
Michael Lithgow
George Pakozdi
E. Alex Pierce
Jason Ranon Uri Rotstein
Key Weber
Margo Wheaton

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Robyn Sarah

Robyn Sarah is the author of ten poetry collections, most recently My Shoes Are Killing Me, winner of the 2015 Governor General’s Award for poetry. She has also published two collections of short stories and a book of essays on poetry. A dozen of her poems have been broadcast by Garrison Keillor on The Writer’s Almanac.


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Amanda Jernigan

Amanda Jernigan is the author of two previous collections of poems, Groundwork and All the Daylight Hours, and of the chapbook The Temple, published by Baseline Press in 2018. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Parnassus, PN Review, The Dark Horse, Atlanta Review, and The Nation, as well as in numerous Canadian literaries, and have been set to music, most recently by Zachary Wadsworth and Colin Labadie. She is an essayist and editor as well as a poet, and has written for the stage.

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E. Blagrave


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Sarah Feldman


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Hamish Guthrie

Hamish Guthrie lives with his wife in Oakville, Ontario, where he taught English and drama at White Oaks Secondary School for many years and coached the debate team. He was born and raised in Toronto, and earned a B.A. in English and philosophy at Victoria College at the University of Toronto before training as a teacher. His poems have appeared in magazines and journals in Canada, the States and England. His forthcoming collection of poetry entitled, Love Hurries This will be released by At Bay Press. His wife was born in Montana, where the family has enjoyed many summers in the Rocky Mountains. Boyhood summers were often spent on a farm near Fergus and Elora, in Ontario.


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Michael Lithgow

Michael Lithgow’s first collection of poetry, Waking in the Tree House, was shortlisted for the Quebec Writers Federation First Book Award. His poems and essays have appeared in numerous literary and academic journals and in Best Canadian Poetry (2012). Born in Ottawa, he changed cities frequently in his early years and moved to Vancouver in the mid-1980s, working as an activist journalist in community-based media and as a paralegal, before attending graduate school in Montreal and Ottawa to complete a PhD in Communication Studies. He currently lives in Edmonton with his wife and daughter, and teaches at Athabasca University.

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George Pakodzi


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Alex Pierce


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Jason Ranon Uri Rotstein


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Kay Weber


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Margo Wheaton


Reviews

“Speaking personally, I had this book on my desk a considerable time. The deaths of both parents within a six-month period meant I had to read the book twice, and parts of it, three or four times. The re-reading was worth it. After so much shock and so much grief, it has been indeed life affirming to absorb and re-absorb this collection of insistent, original voices.”

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Dimensions:

170 Pages
9.00in * 6.00in * .59in
340.00gr

Published:

March 02, 2011

Publisher:

Cormorant Books

ISBN:

9781770860049

Book Subjects:

POETRY / Anthologies

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Language:

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