The Essential Kay Smith
Published on 23. December 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
64 pages
978-0-88984-426-1 (ISBN)
Description
"Selected work of New Brunswick poet Kay Smith. She published poetry in Canada for more than 50 years, beginning in the 1940s when her poems frequently appeared in major literary magazines. Her work displays a sophisticated fusion of images, metaphors and symbols, for going clear connections in favour of fractured grammar, surprising diction and here own poetic mythology. This the 20th in the Essential Poets Series presenting the works of Canada's most celebrated poets. It is edited by Michael Oliver who has published both creative and critical writings."--
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
sewn/stitched
Dimensions
Height: 221 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
91 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-88984-426-1 (9780889844261)
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Persons
Born in Saint John in 1911, Kay Smith was a poet and educator whose career spanned more than fifty years and whose circle included such luminaries as painter Miller Brittain and writer-artist P. K. Page. Smith was known for her modernist style and her distinctly metaphysical poetic sensibility, and her poems frequently appeared in major literary publications such as Contemporary Verse, The Cormorant and The Fiddlehead. She published her first book, Footnote to the Lord's Prayer, in 1951, and her last, The Bright Particulars, in 1987. Kay Smith died in 2004. (Image courtesy of UNB Archives & Special Collections, UNB Public Relations Department Photograph Collection, Series 4, no. 264.)