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category: Poetry
published: Mar 2019
ISBN:9781550817553
publisher: BWB
imprint: Breakwater Books

New and Collected Poems

by Tom Dawe

tagged: canadian
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***CANADA BOOK AWARD WINNER***

***2020 RELIT AWARDS: LONG SHORTLIST***

 

For almost fifty years, Tom Dawe has stood as one of the most respected and admired poets in Newfoundland. This definitive, necessary collection spans five decades of poetic achievement, reprinting each of Dawe’s published collections while gathering previously uncollected poems along with a stunning body of new work. This volume stands as a testament to a monumental achievement for readers both at home and abroad.

About the Author

Tom Dawe

Born in Long Pond, Manuels, Conception Bay South, Tom Dawe has been a teacher, professor of English (Memorial Univesity), visual artist, editor, writer and poet.

His work includes poetry, fiction, dramatic script, folklore and children’s literature. His is also one of the founding members of Breakwater Books Ltd. and TickleAce magazine.

Winner of many awards and honours in arts and letters, he was recently awarded honourary membership in the Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador and induction into Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council Hall of Honour. His work has been studied in schools and colleges around the world. Rewriting Newfoundland Mythology: The Works of Tom Dawe, a book by Martina Seifert, was published in Germany and Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2002.

Awards
  • Short-listed, The Relit Award
  • Winner, Canada Book Award
Editorial Reviews

"The value of Dawe’s work lies in how it navigates such shifting identities not by ignoring or romanticizing the past but by looking on it with a tender and necessarily critical eye. His poems may be set firmly in Newfoundland, but they often marshal the timeless, placeless sense of folk tales and in this way achieve universal reach."

— The Walrus

"In 'Grand Canyon,' from his 2019 collection Pilgrim, Tom Dawe recalls Don Marquis, who 'once said / that publishing a book of poetry / is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon / and waiting for the echo" (55). If this is the case then Dawe's recent New and Collected Poems is a bouquet of fallen petals that reminds readers, as it reminds the poet, ' how wonderful the canyon can be' (55)... Dawe's eye for detail is perhaps at its sharpest when focused on the relationship between the human and an ecological world that, while at times threatened by encroachment, also demonstrates both resilience and a fundamental indifference to human suffering... At over 350 pages in length, the collection testifies to a poet with a varied imagination who, over the course of a long career, has written eloquently about topics ranging from fairy tales and folklore to literature and politics. However, when read as a whole, it is the provocative, stark, and sometimes severe environmental poems that seem to best define Dawe's oeuvre. While the bulk of these poems are not new, they are certainly prescient in an era of environmental crisis. Indeed, that is what makes New and Collected Poems an important contribution to Newfoundland, and Canadian, environmental writing."

— Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, 34, 2 (2019)

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