The residential school experience in Canada, family, First Nations traditions. The Troubles in Ireland, ghosts, violence, emigration and return. The Whole and Rain-Domed Universe by Colette Bryce. Fables, cautionary tales, apocalyptic stories, curio photographs. When This World Comes to an End by Kate Cayley. Obsessions, childhood, desire, and cruelty.
In honour of World Poetry Day, here are some poetry collections (and short suggestions of what you’ll experience within them) that you might not have read, but you definitely should.ġ996 by Sara Peters. Poetry can make us fall in love with language, with image, with rhythm, with sound. Too often, we think of poetry as some kind of riddle to decode. Too often, we only read the poetry we were assigned to read in school. And, I equally firmly believe that people only think they don’t like poetry because they haven’t read the right poetry for them. Then, a meek, “I don’t really read poetry.” I firmly believe everyone should read poetry, regardless of whether you have any interest in actually writing poetry. Unapologetically gentle and intimate, this ambitious first book is not a mere coming-of-age, but a coming into one's own, introducing us to an explorer aware of the joys and dangers of intrusion.I often recommend poetry collections, and often get a look of bafflement in return. I believe in this, the object, quotidian, beloved, she writes, fully aware of how names change as we encounter them, lose and regain and even rename them, in turn renaming us.
"If the poet has a duty to see and name, Soraya Peerbaye has answered the call. Reading her poems sharpens our own connection with the world." - John Steffler
For Peerbaye words connect lives across time and space. "These are marvellous poems, deft, rich, searching, and with remarkable range: tender in recalling her father's French and Creole roots, spare and brilliant in depicting the landscape of Antarctica. Peerbaye as a companion-poet is quietly deft, her voice ranging from lyrical to musical plain-speaking." - Arc Poetry Magazine
has an ear for languages and how it shapes experience. "A sense of place and story dominates this first collection.
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