Almost Beauty (Paperback)

Sue Sinclair

ISBN 10: 1773102346 / ISBN 13: 9781773102344

Published by Goose Lane Editions, Fredricton, 2022

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Paperback. Winner, New Brunswick Book Award (Poetry) Third Prize Winner, Alcuin Society Book Design Awards (Poetry) Finalist, Derek Walcott Prize for PoetrySue Sinclair has been praised for her "crisp, lyrical poems imbued with subtle, subtextual philosophic musings" (Globe and Mail). She has been described as a poet who "writes her way to a new understanding of the world and carries her readers with her" (Journal of Canadian Poetry). Sinclairs debut collection, Secrets of Weather and Hope, was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award, while subsequent collections have earned a place on the Globe Top 100 list (Mortal Arguments), won the IPPY Poetry Award (The Drunken Lovely Bird), and the Pat Lowther Award (Heavens Thieves).This collection includes an introductory essay by editor and poet Ross Leckie, over one hundred selected poems from Sinclairs twenty-year career, and new poems that consider the poets evolving relationships with the idea of beauty and with the more-than-human world in a time of manufactured upheaval. The new poems, many never-before published, exemplify Sinclairs masterful powers of observation and her precise, arresting language. "Almost Beauty is a collection of 24 new poems and 121 selected poems that have been published in Sinclair's previous five books (Secrets of Weather and Hope, Mortal Arguments, The Drunken Lovely Bird, Breaker, and Heaven's Thieves). Ross Leckie selected the previously published poems in consultation with Sue and has written an introduction.-- Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Almost Beauty (Paperback)
• Publisher: Goose Lane Editions, Fredricton
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1773102346
• ISBN 13: 9781773102344
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Winner, New Brunswick Book Award (Poetry)
Third Prize Winner, Alcuin Society Book Design Awards (Poetry)
Finalist, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry

Sue Sinclair has been praised for her "crisp, lyrical poems imbued with subtle, subtextual philosophic musings" (Globe and Mail). She has been described as a poet who "writes her way to a new understanding of the world and carries her readers with her" (Journal of Canadian Poetry). Sinclair’s debut collection, Secrets of Weather and Hope, was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award, while subsequent collections have earned a place on the Globe Top 100 list (Mortal Arguments), won the IPPY Poetry Award (The Drunken Lovely Bird), and the Pat Lowther Award (Heaven’s Thieves).

This collection includes an introductory essay by editor and poet Ross Leckie, over one hundred selected poems from Sinclair’s twenty-year career, and new poems that consider the poet’s evolving relationships with the idea of beauty and with the more-than-human world in a time of manufactured upheaval. The new poems, many never-before published, exemplify Sinclair’s masterful powers of observation and her precise, arresting language.

About the Author

Sue Sinclair grew up on the ancestral homelands of the Beothuk in Newfoundland and is currently living on Wəlastəkwiyik Territory, where she teaches creative writing at the University of New Brunswick. She is the author of five previous collections of poetry, all nominated for or winners of national or regional awards. Sinclair edits poetry for Brick Books and is also editor of the Fiddlehead.