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A House in Memory: Last Poems

A House in Memory: Last Poems

Helwig, David

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Series: Hugh MacLennan Poetry, Book 52

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ISBN10: 0228001250
ISBN13: 9780228001256
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: Jul 23 2020
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.50 Width: 4.80 Depth: 7.50
Language: English

the language of the waterway / the name / the train's route through bliss / to

When the poet and novelist David Helwig - a recipient of the Matt Cohen Prize for lifetime achievement and a member of the Order of Canada - died in October 2018, he left behind a substantial catalogue of unpublished work.

A House in Memory, a selection of Helwig's last poems, was assembled by his daughter, Maggie. It shows an author still at the height of his powers, creating work in complex formal structures, contemplating mortality, memory, and the landscape of his adopted home of Prince Edward Island, and paying tribute to his literary predecessors. The collection also includes unpublished poems from earlier in Helwig's career.

Ranging widely through time, space, and literary tradition, A House in Memory features some deeply personal poems. As Maggie Helwig says of her father, he could not cease to be a poet as long as he had breath in this world.

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