Some Nights It’s Entertainment; Some Other Nights Just Work
- Publisher
- Gaspereau Press Ltd.
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2016
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781554471638
- Publish Date
- Sep 2016
- List Price
- $17.95
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Description
Matt Robinson is in the best sense a poet of the domestic, his intense curiosity animating a renewed engagement with things familiarthe intellectual life of the family dog, a favourite pair of jeans, sports, local landmarks and relationships. In these poems, Robinson approaches each subject with vivid imagery and the intellectual terseness of a logical proposition, playfully reminding us of the “uneven arithmetic” that invigorates poetic language.
About the author
matt robinson (1974), a native of Halifax, NS, now lives in Fredericton, NB. Winner of the 1999 Petra Kenney Poetry Competition and the 2001 Alfred G. Bailey Prize, he is a PhD student at the University of New Brunswick. His first collection of poetry, A Ruckus of Awkward Stacking (2000), was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the ReLit Award for Poetry. He is on the editorial board of The Fiddlehead.