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Selected for Poetry in Transit 2009
The Fly in Autumn is a nuanced work with an absurdist twist in which recognizable landscapes--of North Vancouver quays and piers and harbour fog--are sometimes irrevocably altered by "water-light" into places of the mind alive with "the hundred thousand thoughts everyone collects in a day." Risking unease, using language both tender and ironic, Zieroth's poems range from the cockiness of flight, from Dick and Jane readers to insurance clerks and blind nurses, and to the inevitability of decline. Still, the poet remains alert to the re-emergence of "his boyhood hope: to be brave, to ship out, to learn to sleep on waves."
Prize(s): Short-listed Acorn-Plantos Award for People's Poetry (2010), Short-listed Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (BC Book Prize) (2010), Winner Governor General's Award for Poetry (2009)
Harbour Publishing
ISBN: 9781550174687
Paperback / softback
6.0 in x 9.0 in - 96 pp
Publication Date: 25/05/2009
BISAC Subject(s): POE011000-POETRY / Canadian
Description
Selected for Poetry in Transit 2009
The Fly in Autumn is a nuanced work with an absurdist twist in which recognizable landscapes--of North Vancouver quays and piers and harbour fog--are sometimes irrevocably altered by "water-light" into places of the mind alive with "the hundred thousand thoughts everyone collects in a day." Risking unease, using language both tender and ironic, Zieroth's poems range from the cockiness of flight, from Dick and Jane readers to insurance clerks and blind nurses, and to the inevitability of decline. Still, the poet remains alert to the re-emergence of "his boyhood hope: to be brave, to ship out, to learn to sleep on waves."
Prize(s): Short-listed Acorn-Plantos Award for People's Poetry (2010), Short-listed Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (BC Book Prize) (2010), Winner Governor General's Award for Poetry (2009)
Details
Harbour Publishing
ISBN: 9781550174687
Paperback / softback
6.0 in x 9.0 in - 96 pp
Publication Date: 25/05/2009
BISAC Subject(s): POE011000-POETRY / Canadian