| Going Around with Bachelors [With CD] Contributor(s): Walsh, Agnes (Author) |
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ISBN: 189407856X ISBN-13: 9781894078566 Publisher: Brick Books OUR PRICE: $18.90 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2007 Annotation: The spirit of the departed — source, origin, heritage, history — is the essence of this book, rich with the tang of Newfoundland speech. Agnes Walsh' s first book, "In the Old Country of My Heart," is one of the most read and best loved books of poetry to come out of Newfoundland. "Going Around with Bachelors and Other Poems" continues and extends Walsh' s distinctive subject matter: the past in the present, Ireland and Portugal in Newfoundland, weather internal and external, the Cape Shore. Here are poems of place and of people in place, of family both immediate and extended, with heritage deep and rich. They are also absolutely contemporary poems by a poet, gifted with a remarkably flexible and distinctive voice, who is planted, in her own words, " straight up and down into whats new." Included with the book is a CD of readings by Agnes Walsh. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Canadian |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| Physical Information: 0.27" H x 6.25" W x 8.7" (0.38 lbs) 80 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Poetry. Agnes Walsh's poetry is like nothing else you will read: 'clean as a shriek, ' declarative, funny in all the expected places, full of unadorned wisdom and bone-naked sadness. There is no word for what you will find here-the closest we have is truth--Lisa Moore. Agnes Walsh's voice, rich with the tang of Newfoundland speech, melds the plain and the sophisticated. Her beloved St. John's and Placentia Bay, Portugal, and Ireland provide the distinctive scenes of these plain and dazzling poems. Her poetry goes deep, without ever scanting surfaces so respected and so lovingly rendered, as to be felt as holy. A child may feel that shiver of life / when it holds you and shakes you between not knowing / and knowing something but it takes a real poet, a grown-up in language, to say it right. Agnes Walsh sustains the shiver of life right the way through GOING AROUND WITH BACHELORS |
Contributor Bio(s): Walsh, Agnes: - Born and brought up in Placentia, Newfoundland, Walsh studied folklore in Georgia (USA), before returning home and taking to writing plays, poetry and fiction founded in her love of her ancestral place. She divides her time between St. John's and Patrick's Cove around the Cape Shore from Placentia. In 2006 she was named the inaugural St. John's Poet Laureate. |