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Poetry Canadian

What's between us can't be heard

by (author) Joelene Heathcote

Publisher
Ekstasis Editions
Initial publish date
Jan 2002
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781894800167
    Publish Date
    Jan 2002
    List Price
    $18.95

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Description

An outstanding first collection by an important new voice in Canadian poetry, What’s between us can’t be heard introduces a poet of considerable depth and skill, capable of sustaining a reader’s interest from the first page to the last with poems on the politics of love and the scars left by violence.

About the author

Joelene Heathcote’s poems are radiant with a lyric sensuality, yet they possess a rare brutal clarity and an intellectual honesty not commonly found in modern poems. A first book of poems by an authentic poet is always cause for celebration and Joelene Heathcote’s memorable first collection What’s between us can’t be heard is certain to resonate in Canadian letters for some time to come.

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