New Life in Dark Seas by Stan Dragland
$16.00
A selection of writers Brick Books published in its first 25 years
8.75 x 5.5 Inches | 144 Pages
Publication Date: July 16, 2000
Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781894078108
Trade Paperback $16 |
A quarter of a century old and youthful still, Brick Books offers this selection, as inclusive as we could make it, of the writers we have published through the years. Most of these writers are poets, since Brick Books specializes in poetry, but we’re pleased to flavour the mix with other forms like the historical prose of Greg Curnoe’s Deeds/Abstracts and the terpsichorean prose of Michael Ondaatje in Elimination Dance/La danse éliminatoire. If we do say so ourselves, New Life in Dark Seas is much more than the souvenir of a significant anniversary. It’s a feast for passionate poetry readers like the editors, those who like to stretch within and across the genre — from P.K. Page’s strict-form Hologram, to Dennis Lee’s free jazz verse in Riffs, to Michael Kenyon’s prose-poem fiction, Rack of Lamb, to Phil Hall’s leaping “language” /work poems, to … this could go on. Let it go on, dear reader, in you.
About the Author
Stan Dragland has published four books of fiction: Peckertracks, a Chronicle (shortlisted for the 1978 Books in Canada First Novel Prize), Journeys Through Bookland and Other Passages, Simon Jesse’s Journey (for children) and, most recently, The Drowned Lands. Wilson MacDonald’s Western Tour, a “critical collage” has been followed by three other books of criticism, The Bees of the Invisible: Essays in Contemporary English Canadian Writing, Floating Voice: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Literature of Treaty 9, which won the 1995 Gabrielle Roy Prize for Canadian Literary Criticism and Apocrypha: Further Journeys, winner of the Rogers Cable Non-Fiction Award in 2005. 12 Bars, a prose blues, was co-winner of the bpNichol Chapbook Award in 2003. Stormy Weather: Foursomes was shortlisted for the E.J. Pratt Poetry Award in 2007.
