Strike/Slip

By Don Mckay format: trade paperback publication: March 2006 ISBN: 9780771055430

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Winner of the 2007 Griffin Poetry Prize (Canadian Category).

Winner of the 2007 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize.

In this extraordinary collection from one of our most celebrated poets, Don McKay walks the strike-slip fault between poetry and landscape, sticks its strange nose into the cold silence of geologic time, meditates on marble, quartz and gneiss, and attends to the songs of ravens and thrushes and to the clamour of the industrialized bush. Behind these poems lies the urge to engage the tectonics of planetary dwelling with the rickety contraption of language, and to register the stress, sheer and strain — but also the astonishment — engendered by that necessary failure.

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