The landing / Mark Sinnett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sinnett, Mark, 1963-

Series:

Harbinger poetry series ; no. 4.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ontario--Poetry.

Ontario.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (72 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Ottawa] : Harbinger Poetry Series, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The poems in The Landing, Sinnett's first collection, reflect on a life divided in two by a move from England to Canada. Ontario's glacial landscape is the backdrop for a darkly humorous, often unsettling look at the nature of love and commitment at the end of the twentieth century. This is a time when lurid close-ups of brain surgery are beamed into the home; when the sight of a woman pulling on her wool sweater drives a man mad; when a bored lover considers digging an escape tunnel through the backyard .

Contents:

""Cover""; ""CONTENTS""; ""WOOL SWEATERS""; ""Map""; ""Wool sweater""; ""Breakwater""; ""Before what we did""; ""Late riser""; ""Over time, over space""; ""Time delay""; ""What to think I don't know""; ""Two reasons you will hate me""; ""Espresso""; ""Mother and daughter""; ""Plums""; ""CITIES""; ""Soaps""; ""Digging graves""; ""No strings""; ""The neighbours""; ""Condensations""; ""Olives at John's""; ""Hawk""; ""The wading pool""; ""On the bike""; ""Brain surgery""; ""POLAROIDS""; ""Home court advantage""; ""The more distant limbs""; ""Pictures in what the river left""

""Checking up on Gould""""The new forest""; ""Brain""; ""East""; ""LANDSCAPES""; ""A new record""; ""Gold rush""; ""With open mind""; ""A new plot""; ""Tracking in mud""; ""Prison break""; ""Doubting Thomas""; ""We rattle north""

ISBN:

1-283-53117-8

9786613843623

0-7735-8470-6

OCLC:

767670819