Skip to main content Skip to search Skip to search

Poetry General

Look Out Tower

by (author) Geoffrey Ursell

Publisher
Turnstone Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1989
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888011381
    Publish Date
    Jan 1989
    List Price
    $8.95

Classroom Resources

Where to buy it

Description

The ordinary becomes charged with occult power; Ursell's poems hold up deceptively familiar settings and subjects to reveal sensual and frightening patterns.

About the author

Geoffrey Ursell is an award-winning writer of drama for stage, television, and radio, as well as of fiction, poetry, and songs. His stage plays have won three national playwriting awards, and his novel Perdue won the Books in Canada First Novel Award. His musical comedy, Saskatoon Pie!, has been produced twice and toured provincially by Persephone Theatre. Other plays include Winning the Prairie Gamble (a collaboration with Barbara Sapergia) for Persephone's SaskTel Youth Tour Centennial Year, and Gold on Ice (a musical celebration of the Sandra Schmirler curling team) at Dancing Sky Theatre. His dramatization of Martha Blum's novel The Walnut Tree opened Persephone's 2009/2010 season, and his thriller Dead Midnight opened the theatre's 2011/2012 season. Geoffrey is also a founding member and current President of the nationally esteemed publisher Coteau Books. He was awarded the Saskatchewan Order of Merit in 2009 for his work in the arts.

Geoffrey Ursell's profile page