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edition:Paperback
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category: Poetry
published: Sep 2008
ISBN:9781550652451
publisher: Vehicule Press
imprint: VĂ©hicule Press

Penny Dreadful

by Shannon Stewart

tagged: canadian
Description

Penny Dreadfuls were popular, cheaply produced 19th century magazines filled with brutal and sensationalist tales. In her uncompromising second collection of poetry, Vancouver poet Shannon Stewart revisits their grisly spirit through a series of meditations that examine the media's obsession for luridness, be it tabloids or "respectable" newspapers. At the centre of the book is the story of accused serial killer Robert Pickton. In poems of great psychological risk-taking, Stewart tracks the missing women of Vancouver's East Side and describes-using a voice by turns gritty, funny, shrewd, and broken-hearted-how the gruesome details of their reported murders seep into her role as a mother and wife. Fable-like, ribald, and packing a powerful anti-puritanical punch, Penny Dreadful furnishes us with unsentimental X-rays of the contemporary world and its sundry terrors.

About the Author

Shannon Stewart was born in Ottawa in 1966 and raised in British Columbia. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia, and her poems have been published in Breathing Fire: Canada's New Poets, The Dominion of Love and numerous literary magazines. Stewart lives in Vancouver, where she has served as poetry editor for PRISM International and taught Creative Writing and English as a Second Language.

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