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Get Well Soon

Poems

by (author) Jamie Sharpe

Publisher
ECW Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2024
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781770417700
    Publish Date
    Apr 2024
    List Price
    $22.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781778522970
    Publish Date
    Apr 2024
    List Price
    $15.99

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In the spring of 2020, Jamie Sharpe was in New Brunswick, purportedly studying the famed Magnetic Hill outside Moncton. A dog-walker discovered Sharpe in a ditch, disrobed except for his backpack containing a manuscript …

With his fifth collection, Get Well Soon, Sharpe reaffirms “he is utter master of his language. Whether [Sharpe’s] poems are the result of long lucubration or the inspiration of the moment, they bear no mark of effort, and it is not without admiration, nor even without astonishment, that one is carried along — by the noble, unswerving amble of those gorgeous stanzas, proud white hackneys harnessed in gold — into the glory of the evenings. Rich and subtle, [Jamie Sharpe]’s poetry is never merely lyrical; it always encloses an idea within the garland of its metaphors, and however vague or general that idea may be, it serves to strengthen the necklace; the pearls are secured by a thread that, though sometimes invisible, is ever sure.”

About the author

Contributor Notes

Jamie Sharpe is the author of five books of poetry. He lives in the Comox Valley, British Columbia.

Excerpt: Get Well Soon: Poems (by (author) Jamie Sharpe)

The Ship of Theseus

In the aughts my nudes were leaked to the internet. Which is to say I posted them. Often. I was very leaky. I’d comment on various forums, under various aliases (Fernando Pessoa, Purrssoa1888, Ricardo Reis) asking about these scandalous pictures.

After the better part of two decades, the smallest spark arose as to who this unrobed Jamie Sharpe was. But, by then, he no longer existed.

 

Special Agro-Cheque

I’d paint this orchid
Or feign happiness

 

But it’s forging

 

A fifty billion
Zimbabwe note

 

Useless

 

And beautiful
As your promise

 

Never to use aubade

 

In a poem
And mine

 

Never to cheat

 

A wake forms
Behind my speedboat

 

Henrique

 

Was the more tender
Lover

 

The Crusaders
After Shklovsky

During their first arena tour, a heavy metal band mistook each city for Calgary. When, upon playing for the city, they found it was not Calgary, they’d destroy it.
Out of disappointment.
Meanwhile, Calgary exists.

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