In the Lights of a Midnight Plow
- Publisher
- Biblioasis
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2011
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781897231098
- Publish Date
- Apr 2011
- List Price
- $18.95
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Description
The poems of David Hickey's first collection,In the Lights of a Midnight Plow, glitter and startle. His is a writing deftly musical, where every detail and image has been carefully weighed, honed with a knife's edge and poet's ear to fit just so. The subjects are diverse, though his aim, always, is true: whether writing about nature, farming or domestic concerns, there is intelligence, beauty, humour and originality. Most importantly, there is language, the sparkle and sheen of it, the rythym, all of which tells us that a new and important voice is at work here.
About the author
David Hickey grew up on Prince Edward Island, in western Labrador, and along the north shore of Quebec. A past recipient of the Milton Acorn Prize and the Ralph Gustafson Prize for Poetry, his work has appeared in magazines and journals across Canada an the United States. An avid runner and back yard astronomer, he now lives in London, Ontario, where he is completing a PhD in Canadian literature.
