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category: Poetry
published: Apr 2015
ISBN:9781770899810
publisher: House of Anansi Press Inc

The Exiles' Gallery

by Elise Partridge

tagged: canadian
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Elise Partridge’s The Exiles’ Gallery extends the range of her widely acclaimed earlier books, Fielder’s Choice and Chameleon Hours, praised as “first-rate” (James Pollock) for their “authenticity” (Stephanie Bolster) and “brilliant precisions that reflect life’s plenitude” (Rosanna Warren).

Widely praised for her engagement and her attention to craft, Elise Partridge’s The Exiles’ Gallery confirms her standing as one of the most thoughtful, authentic voices in contemporary poetry. The poems in her third collection continue to explore what she has called “implicit questions about fullness of life or lives somehow thwarted, diminished, ended too early.” Through formal technique, painterly detail or her signature compressed directness, Partridge’s poems explore the past, present and future with compassion and grief, bearing witness to our not-so-still, all-too-brief lives.

Above all, The Exiles’ Gallery is a book of celebration. In these restless, nimble, and complex poems of apprehension — whether by a candid glance backward at childhood or through tributes to friends — Partridge’s arresting images and diction give shape to the complexity and abundance of experience, made more luminous and gilt-edged by the corridor of encroaching shadows. Dispossessed but defiant, these are songs of preservation and love.

About the Author

Elise Partridge’s first book of poems, Fielder’s Choice, was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and her second, The Chameleon Hours, was a finalist for the BC Book Prize, won the Canadian Authors Association Poetry Award, and was featured in the Washington Post “Poet’s Choice” column.

Editorial Reviews

Partridge is a technical wizard for whom thinking and feeling are not separate activities. She is a hawk-like observer of the particular . . . many times ascending to pitch-perfect verse.

— Globe and Mail

First rate . . . a true Canadian heir of Elizabeth Bishop.

— Poetryreviews.ca

There is no cynicism or pretension here, only the authenticity that comes from careful study of both word and world.

— Stephanie Bolster

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