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Hooked: seven poems

seven poems

by (author) Carolyn Smart

Publisher
Brick Books
Initial publish date
Jan 2009
Category
Canadian
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781894078696
    Publish Date
    Jan 2009
    List Price
    $19.00

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Description

Hooked is a stunning new collection of seven poems about seven famous or infamous women: Myra Hindley, Unity Mitford, Zelda Fitzgerald, Dora Carrington, Carson McCullers, Jane Bowles, and Elizabeth Smart. Each of these women was hooked on, and her life contorted by, an addiction or obsession. Here we have seven variations on the insoluble conundrum of sexuality - each in a remarkably distinct, authentic voice. - See more at: http://www.brickbooks.ca/?page_id=3&bookid=209#sthash.drP6novX.dpuf

About the author

Carolyn Smart has written six previous collections of poetry, including The Way to Come Home (Brick Books, 1993), and Hooked: Seven Poems (Brick Books, 2009). Her memoir At the End of the Day (Penumbra Press, 2001) won first prize in the 1993 CBC Literary Contest. Smart is the founder of the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers and an editor for the Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series of McGill-Queen’s University Press; since 1989 she has taught Creative Writing at Queen’s University. She lives with her family in the country north of Kingston.

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