Appetite
Published on 15. October 1989
106 pages
978-1-77131-165-6 (ISBN)
Description
Verve, energy, wit, piquance and pure linguistic excitement: Mia Anderson's poetry is a whole cookbook of poetic experiences. Anderson is always ready to take big risks, and her work shows her love of life in its manyness and accident, as well as a delight in the intricate prism of language.
Appetite includes the long poem sequence "The Saugeen Sonata" which won The Malahat Review's Long Poem Prize in 1988.
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Mia Anderson is a writer, a gardener, an Anglican priest, an erstwhile shepherd, long-time actress and a once-familiar voice in CBC radio dramas. Hers is the voice of Atwood's The Journals of Suzanna Moodie recorded by the CBC. Born and raised in Toronto, where she graduated in English Language and Literature from the University of Toronto, Mia Anderson spent the next 25 years on the stage in the U.K. in London, Edinburgh, and Manchester, and across Canada (including 5 seasons at the Stratford Festival). A national tour of her one-woman show 10 Women, 2 Men and a Moose showcased then-contemporary Canadian writers. She has published four books of poetry: Appetite (Brick, 1988), Chateau Puits '81 (Oolichan, 1992), Practising Death (St Thomas' Poetry, 1997), and most recently The Sunrise Liturgy (Wipf & Stock, 2012).
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- I. Lake & River
- Northern Lights
- Advent
- Le Muskoka
- Dear Arne & Marie-Francoise
- Familiar Song
- Choring
- The Diver
- Thaw
- Alter Heron
- Animal Crackers
- Have I Told You How Lovely
- Halfway from Equinox to Solstice
- The Leaving
- II. River
- The Saugeen Sonata
- Rake's Progress
- Song of the Lonesome Latchkey Kid
- The "Carrot" Scherzo
- Affordances
- III. Lake
- Lake Muskoka
- Went With the Wind
- Not About Peeing
- Wit's Appetite
- Messengers
- IV. Land
- The Dead Man's Shirt
- 4 Dozen Lines for Chernobyl
- Elegy for Myself
- Lahar
- February: A Love Poem
- Bulletin from February
- Scruie
- The Milky Way Goes Into the Food Processor
- The Sign
- Advent Pageant
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
