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Poetry Canadian

Mind the Gap

by (author) Bert Almon

Publisher
Ekstasis Editions
Initial publish date
Sep 1996
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780921215974
    Publish Date
    Sep 1996
    List Price
    $12.95

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Description

Mind the Gap exhibits a fine balance between rational scepticism and metaphysical dreaming. The love poems are jewels, beautifully wrought and with a pleasing weight of maturity and humour.

About the author

Bert Almon won the Writers’ Guild of Alberta Award for Poetry for Earth Prime (Brick) in 1998. He has been a Hawthornden Fellow in Poetry and a finalist in the Blackwell’s/Times Literary Supplement Poetry Competition. His poems have appeared in journals such as The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, Grain, Prairie Fire, Descant, Prism international, and Queen’s Quarterly. He lives in Edmonton, where he teaches creative writing at the University of Alberta.

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