Open Air Bindery
1st Edition
Published on 25. October 2011
72 pages
978-1-926845-78-4 (ISBN)
Description
David Hickey's second collection builds upon the myriad strengths of his first. In a specimen book of songs, stories, and covenants, Hickey's subjects range from art and astronomy to snowflakes and suburbia. These poems "take their time / Covering the roadside trees in forms of their careful willing . . . gesturing down to earth, unveiling new shapes / for all that they find.?
David Hickey is a past recipient of the Milton Acorn Prize, the Ralph Gustafson Prize for Poetry, and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry in Canada. His work has appeared in magazines and journals across Canada and the United States.
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David Hickey: David Hickey grew up on Prince Edward Island, in western Labrador, and along the north shore of Quebec. A past recipient of the Milton Acorn Prize and the Ralph Gustafson Prize for Poetry, his work has appeared in magazines and journals across Canada an the United States. An avid runner and back yard astronomer, he now lives and works in Fredericton.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Open Voyage / 11
- Hinterland Who's Who
- X-Ray / 15
- The Garden Shed / 16
- Hinterland Who's Who / 18
- Aubade / 20
- Suburbia the Beautiful / 21
- The White Papers / 24
- Public Transit / 26
- Footnote to the Book of Moonlight / 27
- Restrictive Covenants
- Short Lives / 31
- The Astronomer's Apology / 33
- A Brief History of Human Longing / 34
- The Lobster Pound Keeper Ponders the Afterlife / 35
- Message in a Bottle / 36
- Night Crossing to Prince Edward Island / 37
- Bedtime Stories
- Oh God, Oh Charlottetown / 43
- The Tree of Old Worry / 44
- At This Hour / 45
- Insomnia Drawings / 46
- Once Upon a Business Trip, In Faraway West Virginia / 48
- The Story of Two Horses / 50
- At the Waverley Inn / 51
- Vespers / 53
- Biographies / 54
- Snowflake Photography
- Plate 1. / 60
- Plate 2. / 61
- Plate 3. / 62
- Plate 4. / 64
- Plate 5. / 66
- Plate 6. / 68
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
