
Anthem
- Publisher
- Brick Books
- Initial publish date
- Oct 1999
- Category
- Canadian
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781771311632
- Publish Date
- Oct 1999
- List Price
- $11.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781894078023
- Publish Date
- May 1999
- List Price
- $14.00
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Description
Winner of the 2000 Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the 2000 Pat Lowther Award and the 2001 Milton Acorn Memorial People’s Poetry Prize
Physical and fiercely lyric, Helen Humphreys' Anthem is a litany of want. A song of poverty and of desire, of the reach forward and the relentless backward glance. With stark images and subtle, tensile strength, her poems touch that rare interval between presence and absence, echo and answer, between wall and window and sky -- that gap in which we live, the space words make.
About the author
HELEN HUMPHREYS’ last novel, The Reinvention Of Love, was a national bestseller. Coventry was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year and a finalist for the Trillium Book Award. Humphreys won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Prize for Afterimage and the Toronto Book Award for Leaving Earth. Her much-loved novel The Lost Garden was a Canada Reads selection. The recipient of the Harbourfront Festival Prize for literary excellence, Humphreys lives in Kingston, Ontario.
WEB: HHUMPHREYS.COM
FACEBOOK: HELEN HUMPHREYS
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