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Poetry Women Authors

Swans

by (author) Michelle Brown

Publisher
Palimpsest Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2023
Category
Women Authors, Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781990293436
    Publish Date
    Apr 2023
    List Price
    $19.95

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Description

Michelle Brown’s second book of poetry, Swans, begins as a night out between three best friends at an eponymous watering hole before becoming a phantasmagorical coming-of-age fable by closing time. In between, memory shifts and poems shuffle like songs on a jukebox, detailing fraught female friendship, sexual awakening, alcohol abuse and abandon in the dying days of a decade of decadence. Swans is a whip-smart collection from one of Canada's catchiest lyric poets.

About the author

Originally from Victoria, BC, Michelle Brown lives in Toronto with her husband and three-legged dog Bo. Previously shortlisted for CV2's Young Buck poetry prize and longlisted for the CBC poetry prize, Safe Words (Palimpsest Press, 2018) is her first full-length collection.

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