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Poetry Canadian

Town Limits

by (author) Heather Pyrcz

Publisher
Gaspereau Press Ltd.
Initial publish date
Sep 1997
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781894031035
    Publish Date
    Sep 1997
    List Price
    $11.95

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Description

“Sometimes this town is too damn small,” writes Heather Pyrcz. Yet Town Limits, her first collection of poetry, is anything but frustrated by the geographical boundaries of its small town Nova Scotia setting. In her writing, Pyrcz shifts smoothly from community to family to intimacy, always finding focus in the strange mix of irony, beauty and truth that envelopes her world.

About the author

Heather Pyrcz has published three collections of poetry, Town Limits (1997), Nights on Prospect Street (1999) and Viaticum (2002). In 2001, CBC Radio commissioned her to write two poems for its classical music program "Take Five." Pyrcz lives in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, where she teaches part-time in the Department of English at Acadia University.

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Editorial Reviews

“At her best–or even weakest–Pyrcz will speak to many readers of their daily and familial lives, their inner life, their hopes and anxieties. Her manner is generally equable, sensitive, perceptive, rarely surprising or disturbing–a reflective, companionable verse.” Michael Thorpe, The New Brunswick Reader