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Poetry Women Authors

Renaissance Normcore

by (author) Adèle Barclay

Publisher
Nightwood Editions
Initial publish date
Oct 2019
Category
Women Authors, General, Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780889713604
    Publish Date
    Oct 2019
    List Price
    $18.95

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Description

Renaissance Normcore belts like a classically trained riot grrrl, composing catchy tunes in the key of fear and desire. Building on the dreamy emotional landscapes she plumbed in If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You, Barclay navigates even sharper peaks and valleys in her second collection to examine the links between intimacy and power. Tracking the paradoxical impulses of anguish and joy that underpin daily life in our hostile neoliberal climate, these poems are both abject and sweet as they repurpose loss into life and test the bounds of how much a poem can hold.

About the author

Adèle Barclay’s writing has appeared in The FiddleheadHeavy Feather ReviewThe PinchglitterMOBThe PuritanPRISM international and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2016 Lit POP Award for Poetry and the 2016 Walrus Readers’ Choice Award for Poetry and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her debut poetry collection, If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You (Nightwood, 2016), was nominated for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry and won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. She is Arc Magazine’s Poet in Residence and an editor at Rahila’s Ghost Press. She lives on unceded Coast Salish territory/Vancouver, BC.

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Awards

  • Short-listed, ReLit Awards in the Poetry category

Editorial Reviews

Toronto Star

“Barclay’s poems are full of queer joy, queer anxiety, queer yearning and queer solidarity. She has a knack for juxtaposing words and images in playful, unexpected ways.”

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