This Being: poems - Softcover

Ruthig, Ingrid

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1554554020 ISBN 13: 9781554554027

Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Limited, 2016

Synopsis

Winner of the League of Canadian Poets' 2017 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for the best first book of poetry published by a Canadian.

In this, her debut collection, Ingrid Ruthig records the ebb and flow of individual life through time, landscape, and our collective existence. How we connect with the past, where we are now, and despite our inherent separateness, our personal convergences — these are what lay ahead on this journey. Ruthig also explores our need to create, to build a deeper sense of self, of belonging: questioning, observing, then striving to respond. Her voice is confident, concentrated, wry. This is a book of poems about the dynamic of being, and our shifting perception of who we are from one moment to the next.

About this title

About the Author

Ingrid Ruthig
Earned a Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Toronto in the 1980s and practised the profession for more than a decade. Her work as a writer, editor and artist has appeared widely, with poems published in The Best Canadian Poetry in English, The Malahat Review, Descant, and many other journals and anthologies across Canada and abroad. She is the author of the poem sequence & artist's book Slipstream, the chapbook Synesthete II, and editor of The Essential Anne Wilkinson and Richard Outram: Essays on His Works, as well as a forthcoming volume on the work of David Helwig. She is a Hawthornden Fellow, and currently lives near Toronto.

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It's as if we pull up to the end of the world, throw the car doors wide and tumble out to consume the view - our breath arrested by a full-stop sky, the drop to treetops, the humpback La Cloche breaching horizon to the north, and water far as you can see...

from "Ten Mile Point"

Edition details

• Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Limited
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1554554020
• ISBN 13: 9781554554027
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88