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Title:Don McKay -- Essays on His Works
Series:(Writers Series 20)
Author:Brian Bartlett (ed)
ISBN:1550712527 : 9781550712520
Format:Paperback
Size:110x180mm
Pages:200
Weight: .18 Kg.
Published:Guernica Editions - December 2006
List Price: 10.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Essays; journals; letters & other prose works


Over the past thirty years, Don McKay has created one of the most original bodies of work in contemporary English language poetry. From the early collections Air Occupies Space and Lightning Ball Bait to the recent books Apparatus and Another Gravity, McKay has combined a curious, patient eye with an acute, arresting ear. His poetry overflows with details of ornithology, botany, weather, industry, books, and music. Geographically it ranges from south-western Ontario to the St. John River valley to the seascapes of Vancouver Island. It blends nuanced description and complex metaphor, philosophical phrasing and folksy idiom, madcap humour and elegy. The contributors are Stan Dragland, Robert Bringhurst, John Oughton, Louis MacKendrick, Christopher Levenson, Don Coles, Sue Sinclair, Barbara Colebrook Peace, Margo Wheaton, Kevin Bushell, Susan Elmslie, Ross Leckie, Ken Babstock, and Brian Bartlett.