What's The Score
- Publisher
- Mansfield Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2012
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781894469623
- Publish Date
- Apr 2012
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
The often outrageous and always wise follow-up to 2008's Governor General's AwardÐnominated Be Calm, Honey shows David W. McFadden at his most inquisitive and provocative. Here you'll find ninety-nine poems full of surprises by a Canadian long-distance poet in his sixth decade of writing, a writer who never rests on his laurels or allows himself to become complacent. This is a book full of mystics and Golden Age movie stars, friends of McFadden and long-dead philosophers, and their tales are all told in the poet's deceptively plainspoken voice.
About the author
David W. McFadden has been publishing poetry since the early 1960s. Why Are You So Sad? Selected Poems of David W. McFadden (Insomniac Press) was shortlisted for the 2008 Canadian Griffin Prize for Poetry, and Be Calm, Honey (Mansfield Press) was shortlisted for the 2009 Governor General’s Award for Poetry (his third such nomination). In 2013, McFadden won the Canadian Griffin Prize for Poetry for What’s the Score? (Mansfield Press). He is the author of about 30 books of poetry, fiction, and travel writing. McFadden lives in Toronto.
Editorial Reviews
[David W. McFadden] is the most readable poet on the planetÉ.ÊHe reminds you to be yourself, to be yourself in the world, and give it a chance to amaze you. While reading his beautiful clear language, you sense that he is a trickster, but you cannot help believing every stanza he writes. If there is any such thing as an essential poet, here he is.ÓÊ(Judges' citation, 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist)
Other titles by
Shouting Your Name Down A Well
Tankas and Haiku
Mother Died Last Summer
Why Are You So Long and Sweet?
Collected Long Poems of David W. McFadden
Be Calm, Honey
Why Are You So Sad
Selected Poems
Writing the Terrain
Travelling Through Alberta with the Poets
An Innocent in Newfoundland
Even More Curious Rambles and Singular Encounters
The Great Canadian Sonnet
An Innocent in Scotland
More Curious Rambles and Singular Encounters
An Innocent in Ireland
Curious Rambles and Singular Encounters
