Almost Islands
Phyllis Webb and the Pursuit of the Unwritten
Will be published approx. on 6. December 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-77201-207-1 (ISBN)
Description
Almost Islands is a memoir of Collis's friendship with and regular visits to legendary poet Phyllis Webb-now in her nineties and long enveloped in the silence which followed her last published book in 1990-as well as an extended meditation on literary ambition and failure, poetry and politics-the struggle that is writing, and the end of writing. This is a book of poetic, political, and philosophical digressions-a book that weaves numerous themes together in a non-linear fashion.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Vancouver
Canada
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Paperback (trade)
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Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77201-207-1 (9781772012071)
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02/2022
Talonbooks
€24.49
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Stephen Collis's many books of poetry include The Commons (Talonbooks, 2008; 2014), On the Material (Talonbooks, 2010 - awarded the BC Book Prize for Poetry), DECOMP (with Jordan Scott - Coach House, 2013), and Once in Blockadia (Talonbooks 2016 - nominated for the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature). He has also written two books of literary criticism, a book of essays on the Occupy Movement, and a novel. Almost Islands is a forthcoming memoir, and a long poem, Sketch of a Poem I Will Not Have Written, is in progress. He lives near Vancouver, on unceded Coast Salish Territory, and teaches poetry and poetics at Simon Fraser University.