Satched : poems / Megan Gail Coles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coles, Megan Gail, 1981- author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry--21st century.

Canadian poetry.

Women poets, Canadian.

Newfoundland and Labrador--Poetry.

Newfoundland and Labrador.

Women poets, Canadian--21st century.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

130 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

[Toronto, ON] : Anansi, 2021.

Summary:

"Named after a local word meaning "soaked through" or "weighed down," Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Megan Gail Coles's debut poetry collection, Satched, is a vivid portrait of intergenerational trauma, ecological grief, and late-stage capitalism from the perspective of a woman of rural-remote, Northern, working class, mixed ancestry. Honest, penetrating, and often darkly comic, these poems explore the extraordinary will it requires to stay alive in the face of economic precariousness, growing inequality, and prevailing dissatisfaction. With a fierce dedication to place, the collection explores the conflict inherent to individualistic priorities and collective needs present in a hyper-commodified Newfoundland and Labrador. Satched demands compassionate advocacy for all as it resolutely strives for clarity and acceptance while celebrating the momentary glimpses of joy in the path toward shared values and resilience."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I Have Been a Messy Bitch

Some Good Talker

Social Studies

Roadside Gardens

One Day, You Move Out

How I Got to This Place

I Was Christopher James

Time Goes Tick Tick Tick as Time Does

Here Comes Your Late Thirties

"150% Chance of Committing Another Crime"

Good Morning Sun

Lay Your Whisper on Some Other Pillow

Appointment Notification

Desperation Books the Ferry

Broken Emotional Manager

The Trades

You Could Have Said No

Run Bitch Run

Inside My Head There Are Rumours

Made Right Here (Or Not)

You Cannot Always Be Beautiful

One Saturday Morning

Food These Days

Public Swimming Pools

Christmas Truce the Once I Suppose

Life in the Fire Lane

Nephew

Mole Sister and Over Bear

Racing Machines

Good Night Moon

Eighty Years of Age / Eighty-Two for Women

Houseplants and House Cats

Use It Or Lose It

In Case of Emergency

Fresh Neoliberals

Breathlessness

Twenty-Three-Dollar Mimosas

A Piano in the Sunroom

Grown-Up Boy Cousins

Florida

Over and Over and Over Again, We Let It All Go

Our Father Is Sick

Silly Bitches, Trucks Are for Big Boys

Don't Eat the Chips

Salt-Stained Through

Nanny's House

Vaguely Ashbery

Ruby Susan.

Other Format:

Online version: Coles, Megan Gail, 1981- Satched.

ISBN:

9781487008949

1487008945

OCLC:

1232509737