Romantic
Published on 19. October 2021
96 pages
978-1-77196-446-3 (ISBN)
Description
Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry • Longlisted for the 2023 E.J. Pratt Family Poetry Award
A CBC Best Canadian Poetry Book of 2021
Drawing on Arthurian myth, the Romantic poets, the ill-fated "Great War" efforts of the Newfoundland Regiment, modern parenthood, 16-bit video games, and Major League Baseball, these poems examine the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, both as individuals and as communities, in order to explain how and why we are the way we are. At its heart, Romantic interrogates our western society's idealized, self-deluding personal and cultural perspectives.
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Person
Mark Callanan is the author of two previous poetry collections, Gift Horse (Véhicule Press, 2011) and Scarecrow (Killick Press, 2003), as well as two poetry chapbooks, Skylarking (Anstruther Press, 2020) and Sea Legend (Frog Hollow Press, 2010). He was a founding editor of the St. John's-based literary journal Riddle Fence, and co-edited The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Poetry (Breakwater Books, 2013). He lives in St. John's with his wife, poet and critic Andreae Callanan, and their four children.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Arcane
- Shotgun
- Cliché
- The Monitor
- Romantic
- The Hold
- Cue
- Highlight Reel
- The Score
- Strike Zone
- Science Camp
- The Odd Couplets
- Lancelot
- The Rider
- Skylarking
- Cyclic
- Vintage
- Longshoreman
- Part of the Main
- Immortality Ode
- Shell
- As You Were
- Fort
- How to Make a Perfect Paper Airplane
- The Work of Art
- In the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
- Museum Diorama
- Scope
- Shooting the Messenger
- Balloon Animals
- Soliloquy
- The Death of King Arthur
- Our Missy
- Midwinter
- Aubade
- Road Trip
- Coda
- Acknowledgements
