A house in memory : last poems / David Helwig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Helwig, David, 1938-2018, author.

Series:

Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series ; 52

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 124 pages)

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"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achievement and a member of the Order of Canada - died in October 2018, he left behind a substantial catalogue of unpublished work.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 The collection also includes unpublished poems from earlier in Helwig's career.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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Foreword

Late Poems (2015–2018)

Waiting

Untitled

Country poems after Virgil's Georgics

“… Also in Rejoicing …”

On your 18th

Night Words for All the Islands

Three Lyrics

Oedipus at the Crossroads

The Nieces

Rhymeless in Season

Quatrains

Quatre Études

Midsummer

High Up on the Top Floor

Clockwise

Dahlias

Enduring Prophecy

Thaw

Improvisations

Queen Anne's Lace

Macdonald Park: September, 2015

Polecat Song

Spring

May Rain

Nausicaa Meets a Stranger

Alien Newcomers

You, as a Stranger

Going Away Now

Travel Documents for All Souls

envoi

Varadero, 2017

Epilogues to Summer

Hymn for No Singing

O Summerland

Prayer

Approaching the Strait

Dinner with Random Gods

(Les Préludes, sonnet before creation)

Migration in Orange

The Pantheon

Pacific

Zinnias Imposed

The Art History Brief Sonnet

(Des tristes esprits: sonnet from history)

Farmscape

A Shade-Sonnet Comes

Imitations of Hafiz

November Footnote (Moon)

A Selection of Earlier Poems

The Wrong Side of the Park

Old Friends

Getting to Missouri

For Bill in April

Vine Street

At the Museum

Travelling

Summer Again

Rosaceae

Self-Portrait: as an Old House

Damage

Memorial

Nocturne: John Field

Aubade

Gallus Absconditus

Illuminations

Kentville, October

Two Views

(last lines, discovered on a phone bill)

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780228002628

0228002621

9780228002611

0228002613

OCLC:

1145341661