Overlays
- Publisher
- Gaspereau Press Ltd.
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2025
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781554472765
- Publish Date
- Jan 2025
- List Price
- $22.95
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Description
In Overlays, Sean Howard employs experimental, magpie strategies that draw fresh poems from the deep wells of two related textsJohn Thompson’s influential poetry collection Stilt Jack (1978) and Peter Sanger’s Sea Run (2023), a critical commentary on Thompson’s mesmerically allusive and elusive ghazals. By mixing images and diction from these source texts with his own reserve of memories, dreams and associations, Howard opens a fresh, lucidly turbulent correspondence between literary elements, the shapes, sounds and silences of his poems creating a palimpsest score.
About the author
Sean Howard’s poetry has appeared in such journals as Geist, The Antigonish Review, The Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, Descant, and Arc. His first book, Local Calls, was published in 2009. Originally from the United Kingdom, Howard now lives in the lobster-fishing village of Main-à-Dieu, Cape Breton, and is adjunct professor of political science at Cape Breton University.
