Almost Beauty
New and Selected Poems
Published on 22. March 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-77310-234-4 (ISBN)
Description
Winner, New Brunswick Book Award (Poetry)
Third Prize Winner, Alcuin Society Book Design Awards (Poetry)
Finalist, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry
Sue Sinclair has been praised for her "crisp, lyrical poems imbued with subtle, subtextual philosophic musings" (Globe and Mail). She has been described as a poet who "writes her way to a new understanding of the world and carries her readers with her" (Journal of Canadian Poetry). Sinclair's debut collection, Secrets of Weather and Hope, was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award, while subsequent collections have earned a place on the Globe Top 100 list (Mortal Arguments), won the IPPY Poetry Award (The Drunken Lovely Bird), and the Pat Lowther Award (Heaven's Thieves).
This collection includes an introductory essay by editor and poet Ross Leckie, over one hundred selected poems from Sinclair's twenty-year career, and new poems that consider the poet's evolving relationships with the idea of beauty and with the more-than-human world in a time of manufactured upheaval. The new poems, many never-before published, exemplify Sinclair's masterful powers of observation and her precise, arresting language.
Third Prize Winner, Alcuin Society Book Design Awards (Poetry)
Finalist, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry
Sue Sinclair has been praised for her "crisp, lyrical poems imbued with subtle, subtextual philosophic musings" (Globe and Mail). She has been described as a poet who "writes her way to a new understanding of the world and carries her readers with her" (Journal of Canadian Poetry). Sinclair's debut collection, Secrets of Weather and Hope, was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award, while subsequent collections have earned a place on the Globe Top 100 list (Mortal Arguments), won the IPPY Poetry Award (The Drunken Lovely Bird), and the Pat Lowther Award (Heaven's Thieves).
This collection includes an introductory essay by editor and poet Ross Leckie, over one hundred selected poems from Sinclair's twenty-year career, and new poems that consider the poet's evolving relationships with the idea of beauty and with the more-than-human world in a time of manufactured upheaval. The new poems, many never-before published, exemplify Sinclair's masterful powers of observation and her precise, arresting language.
Reviews / Votes
"From the early 'thing poems,' peppers and lilies mildly strange in hyperbolic clarity, to the later, sprawling politically alert pieces, Sue Sinclair operates within a keen, rigorous sensibility; from this her poems draw their remarkable muscularity and depth. Few writers explore specificity as she does. She carries us to a tantalizing 'almost beauty.'" -- Tim Lilburn, author of <i>The Names</i> "It is such a gift to have Sinclair's new and selected poems in one place, to see the remarkable evolution of her voice, and to see how singular her vision has been over time. Sinclair has pursued an artist's understanding of the sublime her entire writing life, and here is that pursuit in all its fearful beauty. Almost Beauty is like water. Essential. It's that good." -- Elizabeth Bachinksy, author of <i>The Hottest Summer in Recorded History</i>More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Fredricton
Canada
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
300 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77310-234-4 (9781773102344)
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Sue Sinclair (she/her) grew up in Newfoundland on the ancestral homelands of the Beothuk. She is the author of six previous collections of poetry, including most recently Almost Beauty: New and Selected Poems (Goose Lane Editions, 2022), winner of New Brunswick's Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize. Heaven's Thieves (Brick Books, 2016) won the Pat Lowther Award for the best book of poetry by a Canadian woman. Sue teaches creative writing at the University of New Brunswick on W?last?kwey territory, land of the "beautiful and bountiful river."