'Tis Pity
- Publisher
- FRONTENAC HOUSE LTD
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2012
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781897181577
- Publish Date
- Apr 2012
- List Price
- $15.95
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Description
Part memoir, part creative non-fiction, part poetic score without music, part off Broadway show without a cast, part bungalow for gender dysphoric bachelorettes, ‘Tis Pity is furnished with poems that dart lyrically in and out of each other, bumping like herds of chameleons racing through a self-elegiac labyrinth toward an unspecified finish line.
About the author
David Bateman is a Toronto-based poet, painter, and arts journalist. He has taught creative writing at various universities across Canada. His four collections of poetry, as well as a collaborative long poem (with Hiromi Goto) were published by Frontenac House Press (Calgary) from 2005 through 2014. His first novel, DR SAD, was published by the University of Calgary Press in November of 2020. A collection of short stories & creative non-fiction entitled A MAD BENT DIVA – an anagram for the author’s name – was published by Hidden Brook Press (Brighton) in 2017.