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The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology: A selection of the 2003 shortlist edited by Sharon Thesen (House of Anansi) "Poetry, I believe, is one of the few antidotes we have to the toxicity of the plastic words of predation and management that have so colonized consciousness in our time. Poetry restores us to beauty and sanity, wildness and intelligence." — Sharon Thesen, from the preface More

Crowd of Sounds by Adam Sol (House of Anansi) Once in a long while a lyric poet comes along whose technique, emotional pitch, and intellect combine in sublime balance. Adam Sol is one of those poets, and Crowd of Sounds is his extraordinary new collection.   More

As both introduction to the poet and the poems, this wonderful two volume work cannot be matched. It is both a pleasure to read and a fine companion to the poems. W. B. Yeats, a Life: II: The Arch-Poet, 1915-1939 by R. F. Foster (Oxford University Press) The first volume (see) of this definitive biography of W.B. Yeats left him in his 50th year, at a crossroads in his life. The subsequent quarter-century surveyed in "The Arch-Poet" takes in his rediscovery of advanced nationalism and his struggle for an independent Irish culture, his continued pursuit of supernatural truths through occult experimentation, his extraordinary marriage and a series of tumultuous love affairs. Throughout this time he was writing his greatest poems, from the stark simplicity of "The Fisherman" and "The Wild Swans at Coole", through the magnificent complexities of the sequences reflecting the Troubles and Civil War and the Byzantium poems, to the radical compression of his last work - some of it literally written on his deathbed. The drama of his life is mapped against the history of the Irish revolution and the new Irish state founded in 1922. Yeats's many political roles and his controversial involvement in a right-wing movement during the early 1930s are covered closely, and his complex and passionate relationship with the developing history of his country remains a central theme. More

If I Were Writing This by Robert Creeley (New Directions) Robert Creeley, elder statesman for the Beat poets, winner of the Bollinger Prize in Poetry in 1999 and numerous other prizes too numerous to mention here, is one of America's most acclaimed, beloved and respected writers. His new If I Were Writing This, is Creeley's first major collection since the highly praised Life & Death, which came out in 1998. More

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