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Earth Prime

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  • Publisher:
    Brick Books, 1994
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Almon, Bert
    Date:
    Created
    1994
    Summary:

    Winner of the 1995 Writers Guild of Alberta Award for Poetry

    Bert Almon’s poems are centred in local, apparently unremarkable moments which are addressed with such a fine, ironic eye that they suddenly yield their innate comedy, tragedy, paradox, tenderness. “Poetry,” he has said, “is a message slipped under the door/ You don’t even have to read it/ It wants to tell you about danger/ life and death and good parties.”

    In this, his seventh collection, Almon’s locales range from the Texas of his youth to the physiotherapist’s office near his present home in Western Canada, through concert halls in London and amphitheatres in Greece.

    Genre:
    Canadian poetry, Poetry
    Subject(s): Canadian poetry | Texas | Western Canada | London | Greece
    Original Publisher: London, Brick Books
    Language(s): English
    Collection(s)/Series: Brick Books Poetry