This is poet and award-winning journalist Judith Fitzgerald's fourteenth book, following Ultimate Midnight (Black Moss Press) and Rapturous Chronicles (Mercury), nominated for a 1991 Governor General's Award for Poetry.
"Fitzgerald's book is a powerful voicing of ‘forbidden’ feelings, those very emotions that mark us as human."” American Book Review
Habit of Blues is a continuation and extension of Rapturous Chronicles. A tour de force of wild and beautiful language, heartbreaking insight, drama and wordplay, Habit of Blues is part of that unfashionable, timeless tradition” the love story.

Judith Fitzgerald is the author of more than twenty collections of poetry as well as two bestselling biographies, Marshall McLuhan: Wise Guy (Dundurn, 2001) and Building a Mystery: The Story of Sarah McLachlan and Lilith Fair (Quarry, 1997). Rapturous Chronicles (Mercury, 1991) was nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry; her epyllion, River (ECW, 1995), was both shortlisted for the Trillium Award and honoured with the James McMaster Poetry Prize; and her collection of ghazals and sonnets, Twenty-Six Ways Out of This World (Oberon Press, 1996), was named one of the six best poetry collections of the year published in English (Globe and Mail’s Top 100). Given Names: New and Selected Poems (Black Moss Press, 1985) was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award and won a Writers’ Choice Award. Fitzgerald passed away in November of 2015.

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