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Poetry Canadian

Waiting for the Gulf Stream

by (author) Bert Almon

Publisher
Radiant Press
Initial publish date
Sep 2010
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781926710082
    Publish Date
    Sep 2010
    List Price
    $17.95

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Description

Waiting for the Gulf Stream is a book that crosses many boarders, both stylistic and physical. He travels deftly between a resonant lyricism and language grounded in the narrative line. Here is an assured and accomplished voice that engages the reader as participant.

About the author

Bert Almon won the Writers’ Guild of Alberta Award for Poetry for Earth Prime (Brick) in 1998. He has been a Hawthornden Fellow in Poetry and a finalist in the Blackwell’s/Times Literary Supplement Poetry Competition. His poems have appeared in journals such as The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, Grain, Prairie Fire, Descant, Prism international, and Queen’s Quarterly. He lives in Edmonton, where he teaches creative writing at the University of Alberta.

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