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Poetry Canadian

Earth Prime

by (author) Bert Almon

Publisher
Brick Books
Initial publish date
Sep 1994
Category
Canadian
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781771311861
    Publish Date
    Sep 1994
    List Price
    $11.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780919626690
    Publish Date
    Jan 1994
    List Price
    $11.95

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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.

About the author

Bert Almon won the Writers’ Guild of Alberta Award for Poetry for Earth Prime (Brick) in 1998. He has been a Hawthornden Fellow in Poetry and a finalist in the Blackwell’s/Times Literary Supplement Poetry Competition. His poems have appeared in journals such as The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, Grain, Prairie Fire, Descant, Prism international, and Queen’s Quarterly. He lives in Edmonton, where he teaches creative writing at the University of Alberta.

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