Almost Beauty (Paperback)

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.…