David Helwig
Essays on His Works
Published on 1. September 2018
91 pages
978-1-77183-291-5 (ISBN)
Description
To date, Canadian poet, novelist, and essayist David Helwig has published close to fifty books and edited numerous others. He has written for television and radio, worked at the CBC, taught at Queen's University, been Poet Laureate of Prince Edward Island, and named to the Order of Canada. Yet, he remains little known. This volume is the first to gather new essays, an interview, and earlier material -- by George Fetherling, Douglas Glover, D.G. Jones, Simon Lloyd, Tom Marshall, rob mclennan, Shane Neilson, Ingrid Ruthig, Mark Sampson, and Lorraine M. York-- in order to introduce and explore Helwig's body of work, while documenting the broad range of his literary talents and accomplishments.
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Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: No Common Life
- 12 Or 20 Questions with David Helwig
- Bourgeois and Arsonist
- David Helwig's New Timber: Notes on The Best Name of Silence
- The Progress of Illumination: The Design and Unity of Catchpenny Poems
- Math, Satire, and Sense: David Helwig's Seawrack
- Reaching for Something That Isn't There: The Fragility of Canada in The Glass Knight
- "Still an observer here"? Accessing the Power of Islands in David Helwig's Saltsea
- Art, Beauty, and the Human Theatre: The Novella Form in the Hands of David Helwig
- The Arsonist's Revenge
- Helwig's Memoir The Names of Things
- Biography
- Selected Bibliography
- Contributors
