Swans
- Publisher
- Palimpsest Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2023
- Category
- Women Authors, Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781990293436
- Publish Date
- Apr 2023
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
Michelle Browns second book of poetry, Swans, begins as a night out between three best friends at an eponymous watering hole before becoming a phantasmagorical coming-of-age fable by closing time. In between, memory shifts and poems shuffle like songs on a jukebox, detailing fraught female friendship, sexual awakening, alcohol abuse and abandon in the dying days of a decade of decadence. Swans is a whip-smart collection from one of Canada's catchiest lyric poets.
About the author
Originally from Victoria, BC, Michelle Brown lives in Toronto with her husband and three-legged dog Bo. Previously shortlisted for CV2's Young Buck poetry prize and longlisted for the CBC poetry prize, Safe Words (Palimpsest Press, 2018) is her first full-length collection.
