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Highlights
- As apt to channel the confessionalism of Anne Sexton as the red-in-tooth-and-claw nature poetry of Ted Hughes, Patrick Warner's voice ranges freely from the colloquial to the baroque.
- About the Author: Patrick Warner was born in Claremorris, Co.
- 64 Pages
- Poetry, Canadian
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About the Book
Like its totem creature, the poems in Octopus are canny, slippery, and metamorphic.Book Synopsis
As apt to channel the confessionalism of Anne Sexton as the red-in-tooth-and-claw nature poetry of Ted Hughes, Patrick Warner's voice ranges freely from the colloquial to the baroque. By harboring and honoring such fraught tensions, Warner has built a taut and original body of work. In Octopus we have him at his best.
Review Quotes
PRAISE FOR OCTOPUS
"Warner has a wonderful skill for wielding rhythm and rhyme...engaging and memorable." --Canadian Literature
PRAISE FOR PATRICK WARNER
"Warner's poems can be comical, tender, brutal ... they are always enlightening in their implied connections, sublime in their musical inventiveness."--Sunday Independent
"I don't know if anyone in contemporary poetry is bearing more eloquent, precisely strange witness to the certainty of their doubts than Warner."--ARC Poetry Magazine
About the Author
Patrick Warner was born in Claremorris, Co. Mayo, Ireland in 1963. He has published four collections of poetry: All Manner of Misunderstanding (Killick Press, 2001), There, there (Signal Editions, 2005), Mole (House of Anansi Press, 2009), and Perfection (Goose Lane/Ice House, 2012). He has also published two novels: Double Talk (Breakwater, 2011) and One Hit Wonders (Breakwater, 2015). He is the Rare Books and Special Collections Librarian for Memorial University Libraries.