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Sympathy for the Couriers
- Publisher
- Vehicule Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2007
- Category
- General, Canadian
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781550652819
- Publish Date
- Jan 2009
- List Price
- $6.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550652345
- Publish Date
- Oct 2007
- List Price
- $16.00
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Description
Sympathy for the Couriers is a collection of messages from the border region of our lives--that vast allegorized territory of cheap self-deceptions and illusions. By turns comical and grim, these new poems feature Peter Richardson at his most ventriloquistic. The "couriers" in question are the banged-up, long-suffering, Dantesque voices who, speaking through the poet, deliver their news: heartfelt, often heartbreaking admissions that, nonetheless, are always buoyant with aphoristic brio and panache. But the most important messenger here is Richardson himself, who having establishing a reputation as one Canada's best poets, has given us his most challenging book.
About the author
Peter Richardson is the author of three collections of poetry: Sympathy for Couriers, which won the 2008 A.M. Klein Poetry Award, An ABC of Belly Work, and A Tinker's Press. His poems have also appeared in magazines and journals such as Descant, Poetry, Sonora Review, the Malahat Review, Poetry Ireland Review, and the Rialto (UK). He lives in Gatineau, QC.