Abraham
In these passionate poems, this long poem, there is a story (there are stories) which a reader mines out of a landscape of language moulded under great pressure and eloquent of the stresses that formed it. This is non-representational work of great concentration and beauty.
"The skill and intense ardor of the mind at work ... is delightful. The leas …
Ground Water
Colin Browne’s exciting new work Ground Water received a glowing review in The Georgia Straight (June 6-13, 2002 issue). In all map making, one begins with the representation of “ground’ and “water,’ and what grows or is constructed on these representations is rendered by a series of conventional symbols-the “elements of topography.’ …
The Properties
Poetry begins when the properties of things — and the correspondences among them — reveal themselves through language. Language is the veil that can pierce itself.The poems in The Properties record encounters between desire and the repressed or suppressed interstices of social, economic, political and unconscious forces. They’re alert to corr …
The Shovel
Everything Colin Browne has made up or invented in The Shovel seems written in prose; everything in it he has “unearthed”?from research, the stories of others and source texts?appears as poetry. In this extraordinary book, he has inverted the way we have been defining and privileging forms of language in English for the last century; self-expre …
