The Spoken World

Rhenisch, Harold

ISBN 10: 1926710126 / ISBN 13: 9781926710129

Published by Hagios, 2011

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Signed by author on title page.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Spoken World
• Publisher: Hagios
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1926710126
• ISBN 13: 9781926710129
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Canadian Poetry

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Synopsis

A distinguished poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, translator, dramatist and editor, Harold Rhenisch, regards poetry as "a dance between body and intellect." In The Spoken World he has written a layered and fascinating exploration of his intense and fruitful relationship with the late Robin Skelton. Rhenisch writes with honesty and courage of the difficult passage into poetry and the man who "guided me, out of my earth and my deafness into poetry". Rhenisch has twice won the Malahat Review Long Prize, the CBC Literary Prize and the George Ryga Prize. He lives Nelson, BC.

About the Author

Harold Rhenisch is an award-winning poet, critic, and cultural commentator. His awards include the Confederation Poetry Prize in 1991 and the BC &: Yukon Community Newspapers Association Award for Best Arts and Culture Writing in 1996. He is a seven-time runner-up for the CBC/Tilden/Saturday Night Literary Contest. In 2005, he won the ARC Magazine Critics Desk Award for best long poetry review and the Malahat Review Long Poem Prize for "Abandon." He won this prize again in 2007 for "The Bone Yard." His non-fiction book Tom Thomson's Shack was short-listed for two BC Book Prizes in 2000. For its sequel, The Wolves at Evelyn, he won the 2007 George Ryga Award for Social Responsibility in Literature. Harold Rhenisch has recently moved from 150 Mile House in BC's Cariboo region to Campbell River on Vancouver Island.