Atlantic Poetics
byThe maddening and delightful heterogeneity of contemporary Atlantic Canadian poetry
The maddening and delightful heterogeneity of contemporary Atlantic Canadian poetry
Alden Nowlan’s large, red-bearded legacy for the not-yet emerged
“I quickly realized I didn’t like sitting in labs watching pendulums and deriving formulas [but] I love the torque you can get from the technical terminology.”
Like the other arts, poetry has no “use” at all, strictly speaking, yet it is essential to existence on this planet.
Saturday was an evening of surprises when the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia presented the 2015 East Coast Literary Awards
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by Stephen Rowe
$16.95, paperback, 72 pp.
Breakwater Books, March 2015
Awards celebrate a diversity of regional voices in non-fiction, poetry and fiction The Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia released the short list for the 2015 East Coast Literary Awards this morning. These three awards celebrate and promote excellence in writing from Atlantic Canada. The Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, valued at $25,000, is one of Canada’s largest literary prizes. It was established by Raddall himself and…