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The first word in this new collection by Phil Hall is "raw" and the last word is "blurtip." Between these, many nouns cry faith within a hook-less framework that sings in chorus while undermining such standard forms & tropes as "the memoir," "genealogy" and "the shepherd's calendar." With a rural pen, these poems talk frogs, carrots, local noises, partial words, remnants, dirt roads, deep breath & hope: my laboratory the moment is accordion-shaped - cluttered - sopping & not eternal
The first word in this new collection by Phil Hall is "raw" and the last word is "blurtip." Between these, many nouns cry faith within a hook-less framework that sings in chorus while undermining such standard forms & tropes as "the memoir," "genealogy" and "the shepherd's calendar." With a rural...
About the author
PHIL HALL is a writer, editor, and teacher. His first book, Eighteen Poems, was published in 1973. Among his many published titles are: Old Enemy Juice; The Unsaid; Hearthedral-A Folk-Hermetic; An Oak Hunch; White Porcupine; Killdeer (winner of the 2011 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry, the 2012 Trillium Book Award, and shortlisted for the 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize); The Small Nouns Crying Faith; Guthrie Clothing: The Poetry of Phil Hall, a Selected Collage; and My Banjo and Tiny Drawings. Hall has taught writing at York University, Ryerson University, Seneca College, George Brown College, and elsewhere, and has held the position of Poetry Editor for Book*hug since 2013. Phil lives with his wife near Perth, Ontario.
PHIL HALL is a writer, editor, and teacher. His first book, Eighteen Poems, was published in 1973. Among his many published titles are: Old Enemy Juice; The Unsaid; Hearthedral-A Folk-Hermetic; An Oak Hunch; White Porcupine; Killdeer (winner of the 2011 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetr...
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