Out of the Ordinary: New Poems - Couverture souple

Wayman, Tom

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1998526127 ISBN 13 : 9781998526123

Editeur : Harbour Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

Wayman crafts poetry that captures how the everyday can contain the extraordinary.

The twenty-first century so far feels extraordinary, offering in its first quarter a global pandemic, catastrophic climate events, an unprecedented gap between the super-rich and the rest of us, new shortages in medical services and affordable homes, and more. The poems of Tom Wayman's new collection, Out of the Ordinary, explore how such extraordinary developments can both arise from, and affect, the ordinary objects, environments and human relationships that surround us.

To probe this traffic between the ordinary and the extraordinary, the poems of Out of the Ordinary go deep, drawing on poetry's almost-magical ability to discover links between aspects of our lives that otherwise seem far apart. The sections of this collection investigate some responses to this century's quandaries, the enduring mysteriousness of nature as well as of our historic and cultural worlds, and what we find if we imaginatively enter a carrot seed or a raindrop. Other sections honour a friend lost during the pandemic, struggle with how to deal with such life-altering transitions, and marvel at the strangeness of this century's literary milieu. "Poets are the janitors of the human heart," Wayman maintains in a poem of that name, and he indeed demonstrates how poetry can make the ordinary shine brightly even in these turbulent decades.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Tom Wayman's prolific literary career includes writing more than twenty poetry collections, three collections of critical and cultural essays, three books of short fiction and a novel, as well as editing six poetry anthologies. He received British Columbia's 2022 George Woodcock Award for Lifetime Achievement in the literary arts. In 2015, he was named a Vancouver Literary Landmark, with a plaque on the city's Commercial Drive commemorating his championing of people writing for themselves about their daily employment. He won the Western Canada Jewish Book Awards prize for fiction in 2016 (for the short story collection, The Shadows We Mistake for Love) and for poetry in 2023 (for Watching a Man Break a Dog's Back: Poems for a Dark Time). His memoir, The Road to Appledore (or How I Went Back to The Land Without Ever Having Lived There in the First Place), was published in 2024. Wayman lives in Winlaw, BC, and his website is www.tomwayman.com.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harbour Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1998526127
• ISBN 13: 9781998526123
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 140
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible