False creek / Jane Munro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Munro, Jane (Patricia Jane Southwell), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (84 pages)

Place of Publication:

Madeira Park, British Columbia : Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd., [2022]

Summary:

"In this new and masterful collection, Griffin Poetry Prize winner Jane Munro balances her signature themes--dream life, the visual arts, the mysteries of the natural world--with an urgent, more directly political voice. False Creek, Munro's eighth collection of poetry, responds to the discovery of sodded-over graves around residential schools and the elimination of SYn̓a4qʺ, home to fifteen thousand S5wx1w︢7mesh before the genocide caused by European diseases. Poems ask What counts as violence? and address erasure. Others reflect on False Creek's reduction to one-fifth its original size, offer a litany of species living there before the destruction of habitat, and observe how it remains a cherished inlet to the heart of Vancouver. As Munro walks around False Creek images arise. In content and form, the book ranges far and wide. While not shirking painful realities, the poems support the human capacity to climb ladders, arrive at fresh points of view, listen to one another, and greet despair with wit, attention, intention--and hope."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title Page

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Table of Contents

When Vesuvius Blows Up

False Creek

Walking Home from Vanier Park

Now

What Counts as Violence?

How Come This Cruelty?

Erasing

Sunset Beach

I am Running Water

A Body of Water

Coming Out of Choices

In the Parking Lot

The Boy I'm Not

Moving Water Does Not Hold

Nursing the Moon

Passing on Your Right

Annual Rings

Map Time

MacKay Creek

Below My Horizon

A Ladder

Decisions Must Be Made

From the Sunken Lands

Moon Boat

The Tongue, the Penis, the Brain

A Skin of Noise

Magic Realism

Shortbread Tin of Many Buttons

Each Kernel's Beard Glistens

The Rental Cost of Superiority

Come Into My Room

Banner in Rome on a Museum

Inextinguishable

Swift as a Pebble Skipping Waves

No Frills Checkout

Coils Inside Me

The Golden Boat

Takashi Murakami

His Huge Canvasses

Teeter Totter

I Wanted an Adventure

Cinnamon Curls

To the Artist's Dismay

Goods Seem Sure

Ballast

Within and Without

Salutations to the Ever Generating One

My Foot Was Broken

Bury Me In A Butterbox

Notes

Acknowledgements

About the author.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Munro, Jane False Creek

ISBN:

9781990776106