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2021., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: NEW QWF 811.6 V772b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Hugh MacLennan poetry series.Summary Note: Bitter in the Belly reckons with suicide's wreckage. After John Emil Vincent's best friend descends into depression and hangs himself, fluency and acuity lose their lustre. Vincent sorts through and tries to arrange cosmologies, eloquence, narrative, insight, only to find fatal limitations. He tries to trick tragedy into revealing itself by means of costume, comedy, thought experiment, theatre of the absurd, and Punch and Judy. The poems progress steadily from the erotic and mythic to the lapidary and biblical, relentlessly constructing images, finding any way to bring the world into the light - what there is of light, when the light is on. In his most personal book, Vincent moves from stark innocence through awful events and losses, to something like acceptance without wisdom - Jonah spit back onto the sand with little to report but that's he's home.
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By Asfour, Johnc2011., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: QWF 811.54 M634b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The Hugh MacLennan poetry series
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c2010., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: QWF 811.54 H235c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Hugh MacLennan poetry series Volume: 21.
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c1999., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: QWF 811.54 S691c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Hugh MacLennan poetry series
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c2000., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: QWF 811.54 S795c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Hugh MacLennan poetry series
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c2003., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: QWF 811.54 S691f Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Hugh MacLennan poetry series Volume: 13.
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2022., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: NEW QWF 811.6 P887f Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Hugh MacLennan poetry series.Summary Note: From a darkly humorous perspective, this book charts a young person's navigation of narrow definitions of faith, femininity, and family. Confronting addiction, compulsions, and anxieties, Full Moon of Afraid and Craving explores the strange combination of wonder and longing that makes a life. Across settings rural and urban, Melanie Power's poems commemorate ordinary moments and everyday characters: a roadside shopkeeper, a neighbourhood linden tree, a great-uncle's hooch. Interrogating lineage and inheritance, she traces the unsettling shadows that border joy. A series of ambivalent odes pay a winking, Proustian homage to the sense memories of a Roman Catholic millennial upbringing in Newfoundland. The long poem "Risanamento," written during pandemic lockdown in Montreal, considers how we re-examine and consolidate our personal and civic pasts in times of crisis, drawing timely parallels to John Keats's confinement due to illness exactly two centuries prior. At times wry and lighthearted, at others elegiac and plaintive, the voices in these poems are controlled and confident. Just as the stars in the sky are best viewed at night, this collection embraces darkness to illuminate rays of moonlight.
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By Rose, Rachelc1999., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: QWF 811.54 R797g Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Hugh MacLennan poetry series
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2022., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: QWF 811.6 S785h Availability:2 of 2 At Your Library Series Title: Hugh MacLennan poetry seriesSummary Note: A keeper of things forgotten, a vase / for pictures made by words, a riverbed / for the stories you tell, an earthen silhouette / of a child With vivid imagery and endless compassion for subjects, Tanya Standish McIntyre's words breathe life. Her richly lyrical phrases capture both the fear and the beauty of growing up in a rural working-class community, anchored by the magical bond between a young girl and her grandfather. Way's Mills, Quebec, is the setting for these poems, although as with Mark Twain's Mississippi, place becomes a place in the heart in this elegy for lost ancestral farms. Standish McIntyre gives voice to the unspoken, shining a light into the dark corners of our collective memory to reveal an indelible past that gleams with clarity, empathy, and humanity. Taking seed in the dilapidated barns and warm sunlit rooms of Standish McIntyre's personal history, these poems weave a filigree of well-worn remembrances and time-honoured treaties of the self, half forgotten yet ever lingering. Lucid, sharp, and crisp as spring water, this collection holds a sweeping narrative power that will stay with you long after the last line.
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2018., Le Lezard Amoureux Call No: QWF FR 811.6 D794p Edition: French edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The Hugh MacLennan poetry seriesSummary Note: Écrit par Kelly Norah Drukker, pote de la scène émergente anglophone de Montréal, ce très beau recueil témoigne des pérégrinations de l'auteure à travers des territoires éloignés, que la pote parcourt à travers le texte tout en y relayant une expérience très sensible du monde, et son propre rapport aux lieux confidentiels. Que ce soit en déambulant à travers Inis Mor, une petite île de langue irlandaise sise sur la côte ouest galloise, ou par les paysages de la campagne française - dont Drukker nous fait découvrir la beauté un peu paradoxale des Pyréneées - l'auteure y déploie une voix à la fois tendre et acérée, donnant à entendre les gens simples comme les marginaux, se fondant en ces contrées, qu'elle épouse de manière à se marier presque à leurs confins, à sentir battre leur pouls.
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2020., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: QWF BLK 811.6 R647r Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Hugh MacLennan poetry series.Summary Note: Those of us who've seen miracles know how to ask. / if you've asked, do you love me, i almost certainly / don't love you. This meditative, musically attentive collection explores the confounding nature of intimate relationships. Stephanie Roberts's poetic expression is often irreverent, unapologetic, and infused with humour that can take surprisingly grave turns. rushes from the river disappointment traverses city, country, and fantasy using nature as artery through the emotional landscape. As they wrestle to come to terms with the effects of uncertainty and grief on hope and belief, these diverse field notes are interspersed with the fabulous: a polar bear and owl engage in flirtation, a time traveller appears on a lake, an erotic scene takes place on a train, and we confront "people capable of eating popcorn at the movie of your agony." Roberts's language is dense with images and sometimes acrobatic. In poems that affirm love and desire as treasures fought for more than just felt, rushes from the river disappointment turns an unblinking gaze on the failures of courage that distance us from love.
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By Abley, Mark2005., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: QWF 811.54 A152s Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Hugh MacLennan poetry series.
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2016., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: QWF Fic Dru Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Hugh MacLennan poetry series.Summary Note: "The poems in Small Fires trace a series of journeys, real and imagined, and seek to illustrate the stories that lie buried, both in landscapes and in human lives. The collection opens with a section of poems set on Inis Mór, a remote, Irish-speaking island off the west coast of County Galway, where the poet-as-speaker discovers the ways in which remnants of the island's early Christian monastic culture brush up against island life in the 21st century. Also present is a series of poems set in the midi-Pyrenees and in the countryside around Lyon. Linked to the shorter poems in the collection by landscape, theme, and tone is a set of longer, narrative poems that give voice to imagined speakers who are, each in a different way, living on the margins. The first describes a young emigrant woman's crossing from Ireland to Canada in the early 20th century, where she must sacrifice her tie to the land for the uncertain freedom of a journey by sea, while a second depicts the lives of silk workers living under oppressive conditions in Lyon in the 1830s. The collection concludes with a long poem written as a response to American writer Paul Monette's autobiographical work Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir."--
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2021., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: NEW QWF 811.6 Cl72v Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Hugh MacLennan poetry series.Summary Note: "In the early 2000s flarf poetry emerged as an avant-garde movement that generated disturbing and amusing texts from the results of odd internet searches. In Vlarf, Jason Camlot plumbs the canon of Victorian literature, as one would search the internet, to fashion strange, sad, and funny forms and feelings in poetry. Vlarf pursues expressions of sentiment that may have become unfamiliar, unacceptable, or uncool since the advent of modernism by mining Victorian texts and generic forms with odd inclinations, using techniques that include erasure, bout-rǐm, emulation, adaptation, reboot, mimicry, abhorrence, cringe, and love. Erasures of massive volumes of prose by John Stuart Mill and John Ruskin become concise poems of condensed sadness; a reboot of Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market" is told from the perspective of a ten-year-old boy with an imaginary albatross pal; recovered fragments from an apocryphal book of Victorian nonsense verse are pieced together; a Leonard Cohen song about Queen Victoria is offered in a steampunk rendering; and a meditative guinea pig delivers a dramatic monologue in the vein of Robert Browning."--
