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Russell Thornton

The Broken Face

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The poems in The Broken Face explore a sacramental, imaginative vision within contexts of crime, perception, memory and love. In this collection, Russell Thornton returns to the vital themes of intimacy and family, loss, fear and hope, bringing to each poem the essential quality of a myth or incantation. Reverent and revealing, within those familiar relationships he ushers in a connection with something transcendent: A man has come floundering late in the night / to stand alone at the shore of a sleeping infant's face.The poems capture life at the periphery, whether describing homelessness or incarceration, or even the universal experiences o… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-55017-845-6
  • EAN: 9781550178456
  • Produktnummer: 28475667
  • Verlag: Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'531 KB

Über den Autor


Russell Thornton is the author of The Hundred Lives (2014), shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, and Birds, Metals, Stones & Rain (2013), shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Poetry, the Raymond Souster Award and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. His other titles are The Fifth Window, A Tunisian Notebook, House Built of Rain (shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the ReLit Award for poetry) and The Human Shore. Thornton's poetry has appeared in a number of anthologies, among them Love Me True, Sustenance, Refugium: Poems for the Pacific, In Fine Form, Best Canadian Poetry in English 2012, Open Wide a Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems and Rocksalt: An Anthology of Contemporary BC Poetry. His poems have been featured several times on Vancouver buses as part of BC's Poetry in Transit. Thornton has lived for extended periods of time in Montreal, in Aberystwyth, Wales, and in Salonica, Greece. For the past number of years he has lived where he was born and grew up, in North Vancouver.

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