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Title: |
Tar Swan |
| Series: |
Crow Said Poetry |
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| By (author): |
David Martin |
| ISBN10-13: |
1988732182 : 9781988732183 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
230x140mm |
| Pages: |
96 |
| Weight: |
.170 Kg. |
| Published: |
NeWest Press - April 2018 |
| List Price: |
15.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 1 |
| Subjects: |
Poetry by individual poets |
| Shortlisted for the 2019 Raymond Souster Award!Finalist for the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize!Tar Swan is a multi-voiced reckoning that surveys the mythos of the Alberta oil sands with an approach that is both lyrical and experimental. The poems feature four voices: an oil sands developer, his plant mechanic, an archaeologist excavating the remains of the operation in the present day, and a mythical swan. David Martin's debut collection is comprised of expansive and richly written poems, built on a lore-laden language, which explore the human and environmental cost of drawing too much from the land. As the three humans come into contact with the otherworldly swan, the voices bubble and churn together, and what is distilled is a psychological breakdown paralleling the toll taken on the earth. |
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