Poetry
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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