The True Names of Birds
- Publisher
- Brick Books
- Initial publish date
- Oct 1998
- Category
- Canadian
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781771311410
- Publish Date
- Oct 1998
- List Price
- $11.99
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Nominated for the 1999 Governor General's Award for Poetry, the 1999 Pat Lowther Award and the 1999 Gerald Lampert Award and Globe 100 book for 1999
The True Names of Birds is the first book-length collection from a voice that has captured the attention of Canadian poetry readers for the last half-dozen years. Deeply centred in domestic life, Goyette's work is informed by a muscular lyricism. These are poems that push the limits, always true to their roots.
About the author
Sue Goyette has published nine books of poems and a novel. Her collections include The Brief Reincarnation of a Girl, Penelope and Ocean (for which she was awarded the 2015 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award). She is the editor of Resistance: Righteous Rage in the Age of #MeToo (University of Regina Press, 2021), The 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology (Anansi, 2017) and The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2013 (Tightrope Books, 2013). Her work has been translated into French, Spanish and German and has been featured in films, subways, buses, spraypainted on a sidewalk and tattooed. She was nominated for the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General’s Award and has won several national awards including the Pat Lowther Award, the Bliss Carman Award, and the CBC Literary Prize for Poetry. She is the Artist in Residence in the Max Rady College of Medicine at the University of Manitoba and Poet Laureate for Halifax Regional Municipality. She lives in Halifax (K'jipuktuk) where she teaches in the creative writing at Dalhousie University.
Other titles by
A Different Species of Breathing
The Poetry of Sue Goyette
Monoculture
Solstice 2020
An Archive
Resistance
Righteous Rage in the Age of #MeToo
Anthesis
A Memoir
Penelope
The 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology
A Selection of the Shortlist
The Brief Reincarnation of a Girl
The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2013
