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Poetry Canadian

Exploding Into Night

by (author) Sandy Pool

Publisher
Guernica Editions
Initial publish date
Jan 2009
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550713077
    Publish Date
    Nov 2009
    List Price
    $15.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781550715125
    Publish Date
    Jan 2009
    List Price
    $9.95

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Description

In Exploding into Night, Sandy Pool delves into the heart of a grisly murder that took place in the Parkdale area of Toronto. With its dazzling turns and deafening silence, this narrative poem is a stark reappraisal of urban existence and its heartache. Pool's metaphysical landscape speaks in multiple voices and prods the very nature of our collective conscience. A selection of poems from this collection was awarded First Place in the 2009 Elora Writers' Festival Poetry Contest. The collection has been short-listed for the 2010 Governor General's award for English poetry.

About the author

Sandy Pool is a multidisciplinary artist and recently appointed Killam scholar. She holds a degree in Theatre Performance and English from the University of Toronto, as well as a Master's of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University Guelph. Currently, she is a doctoral student in Canadian Literature and Poetics at the University of Calgary, where she is the editor of Dandelion magazine. Sandy's first book, Exploding Into Night, was nominated for the 2010 Governor General's Award for Poetry. She was most recently anthologized in The Best Canadian Poems in 2011. She is also a librettist and voice work artist.

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Awards

  • Short-listed, Governor General's Award