Poetry
Sommer extends the sonnet beyond its traditional territory of love between man and woman to embrace the natural world around him and the deteriorating ecology of the planet. The result is a rich weave of past and present, love and pain, language and world. >>
This book is about the relationship between body and word, body’s longing for word, word’s longing to be embodied. It is about being in relationship with another person, self and other. Experience, like rain, falls through a tree’s canopy.
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The Time Between is a series of conversations with a contemplative heft, only in this case infected and inflected by operation-manual speech and military-industrial-complex mores and malaise—as if the other had been forced to contemplate violence in a real way, had been forced out into the crowded world, forced to let in multiple and troubled points of view. >>
As they explore love and life balanced on the edge of a city, in a mobile home perched precariously, metaphorically on the fringe of society, the poems in The Trailer dig past the daily detritus of the forsaken lover's world of tin-walled hope and melamine dreams to reveal humour, beauty, and joy.
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The poems in The Unseen World leap out from the page and show us a world hiding beneath our perceived history and reality: dead Spanish poets in bus station gift shops, Soren Kierkegaard taking coffee at IKEA, and Henry Miller emerging from the 14th Street Subway are just a few of the evocative images David Elkins brings to the surface of a world unseen. >>
This Side of Light: Selected Poems (1995-2020)
Selected and introduced by Governor General award-winning poet Arleen Pare, This Side of Light celebrates the evolution and scope of Souaid's work over a 25-year period. >>
The poems in this collection explore themes of death and desire. They quest for balance in a world seemingly fraught with contradiction and loss. >>
These poems move from vivid fragments that capture the essence of Transcona—a suburban community stitched to the city of Winnipeg—to sensitive, self-referential engagement of the "lyric I"—a voice made up of melancholy, anxiety and psychotropic experience. >>
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