About the Author
Nick Thran
Nick Thran's previous collection of poems, Earworm (Nightwood Editions, 2011), won the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. His first collection, Every Inadequate Name (Insomniac Press, 2006), was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Born in Prince George, BC, Nick has lived and worked in various towns and cities across the country. He currently works as a poetry editor, and lives with his wife and daughter in Montreal.
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A rumination on responsibility, inheritance, and how we both accept and reject them, Nick Thran's Mayor Snow (Nightwood Editions) pairs political discord and corruption with the cozy domesticity of the Al Purdy A-Frame. No wonder, then, that Thran's own inheritance – ... Read more
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