Creamsicle Stick Shiv - Softcover

Stiles, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1897178182 ISBN 13: 9781897178188

Publisher: Insomniac Pr, 2006

Synopsis

John Stiles' first collection of poetry, Scouts Are Cancelled, explored the dialect and the dilemmas of down-home life in Nova Scotia's rural Annapolis Valley.In his second collection, the poet expands his horizons. Chronicling his movements from Canada's east coast to Toronto's self-obsessed urban core, following his heart around the world to find love and employment in England, these poems resonate with profound ideas and offbeat observations on people and place, on the variables that combine to create a person's identity, and what it means to leave, to seek, and to desire a home.Alive with Stiles' distinct linguistic charms and poetic good nature, Creamsicle Stick Shivs is a book of subtle inventiveness and undeniable roguish delight.

About this title

About the Author:

John Stiles is a poet, novelist, and filmmaker. He is the author of one previous collection of poetry, Scouts Are Cancelled, and a novel, The Insolent Boy, both published by Insomniac Press. Originally from Port Williams, Nova Scotia, Stiles currently lives with his wife in London, England.

Review:

"... these are stylish, rich, satirical, excellent narrative poems." -- George Elliott Clarke"It is the poems themselves, chock full of idiom and incident and a straightforward, everyman's lyricism, that linger and resonate." -- The Danforth Review"Stiles' poems are presented in a regional dialect that is humorous yet frighteningly accurate ... thoroughly enjoyable." -- Taddle Creek

About this edition

• Publisher: Insomniac Pr
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1897178182
• ISBN 13: 9781897178188
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 72