Animal Life in Bucharest
- Publisher
- Pedlar Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2000
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780968188484
- Publish Date
- Apr 2000
- List Price
- $14.95
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Description
Animal Life In Bucharest is Toronto poet John Degen's debut collection. In 1994 Degen and his Romanian-born wife at the time travelled in Eastern Europe; these resultant poems investigate the complex changes possible in a world and in an individual life. Edited for the press by 2006 Trillium Poetry Award winner Kevin Connolly.
About the authors
John Degen is the author of two books of poetry: Killing Things and Animal Life in Bucharest. He has published work in Taddle
Creek, blood + aphorisms, The Fiddlehead, Queen Street Quarterly and The Walrus, and is a frequent reviewer for THIS Magazine. Degen is Executive Director of the Professional Writers Association of Canada. He lives in Toronto.
Beth Follett is the founder and publisher of Pedlar Press, a Canadian literary house. Her first novel, Tell it Slant (Coach House Books, 2001), a retelling of Djuna Barnes’s 1936 novel Nightwood, met with critical acclaim. Her poetry, prose and nonfiction work have appeared in Brick, Best Canadian Poetry 2019, and elsewhere. She lives in St John’s, NL.
