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Poetry Women Authors

Myth

by (author) Terese Mason Pierre

Publisher
House of Anansi Press Inc
Initial publish date
Apr 2025
Category
Women Authors, General, Canadian
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487013059
    Publish Date
    Apr 2025
    List Price
    $11.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781487013042
    Publish Date
    Apr 2025
    List Price
    $22.99

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Myth, the much-anticipated debut collection from the multi-talented Terese Mason Pierre, weaves between worlds (‘real’ and ‘imaginary’) unearthing the unsettling: our jaded and joyful relationships to land, ancestry, trauma, self, and future. In three movements and two interludes, the poems in Myth move symphonically from tropical islands to barren cities, from lucid dreams to the mysteries of reality, from the sea to the cosmos. A dynamic mix of speculative poetry and ecstatic lyricism, the otherworldly and the sublime, Pierre’s poems never stray too long or too far from the spell of unspoiled nature: “The palm trees nod / at the ocean / the ocean does / what it always does / trusts the moon completely.”

Friends ‘with benefits’ tour the wonders of Grenada’s landscapes; extraterrestrials visit the Caribbean and the locals don’t seem phased; red birds “saunter airily like tourists,” La Diablesse lures helpless suitors to their dooms. This collection asks: How can myths manifest themselves in our daily lives? What do we actually mean when we say we love ourselves and others? And how do we pursue/create futures that honour our truths, histories and legacies?

About the author

TERESE MASON PIERRE is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in The Walrus, ROOM, Brick, Quill & Quire, Uncanny, and Fantasy Magazine, among others. Her work has been a finalist for the bpNichol Chapbook Award, Best of the Net, the Ignyte Award, and the Aurora Award. She is a winner of the Writers’ Trust Journey Prize, and was named a Writers’ Trust Rising Star in 2023. She is the author of the chapbooks Surface Area (Anstruther Press, 2019), and Manifest (Gap Riot Press, 2020). Terese lives and works in Toronto, Canada.

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