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A Pretty Sight

by (author) David O’Meara

Publisher
Coach House Books
Initial publish date
Sep 2013
Category
Canadian, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781552452813
    Publish Date
    Sep 2013
    List Price
    $17.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781770563599
    Publish Date
    Sep 2013
    List Price
    $10.95

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Description

Like the rhapsodists, the storytellers of ancient Greece, A Pretty Sight shapes voices of the past and present into a stitched song lifted and sounded toward the next century. Haunted by ‘time's frame / that dark shape near the edge of the canvas,’ O’Meara's new book explores aspects of culture, art, war, rebellion and technology, offering defiance amid decay.

‘O’Meara is a poet of the personal. Of the person. In and amongst the social documentary and human observation at which he excels, here is a writer prepared to put feelings on the line and to argue his case with the reader. This is proud, felt, and affecting work — I can't think of many other poets so prepared to engage and so equipped to succeed.’ —Simon Armitage

About the author

David O’Meara is the award-winning author of five collections of poetry, most recently Masses on Radar (Coach House Books). His books have been shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award, the ReLit Award, the Trillium Book Award and the K.M. Hunter Award, and have won the Archibald Lampman Award four times. His poetry has been nominated for a National Magazine Award, quoted in a Tragically Hip song and used as libretto for a pastoral cantata for unaccompanied chorus, written by composer Scott Tresham. He is the director of the Plan 99 Reading Series and he was the founding Artistic Director for the VERSeFest Poetry Festival. He lives in Ottawa.

David O’Meara's profile page

Awards

  • Winner, Archibald Lampman Award for Outstanding Book of Poetry
  • Winner, Ottawa Book Award for English Fiction

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