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Author / Creator:	Errington, Patrick James, author.
Imprint:	Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2023] ©2023
Description:	ix, 107 pages ; 20 cm
Language:	English
Series:	The Hugh MacLennan poetry series Hugh MacLennan poetry series.
Subject:	Loss (Psychology) -- Poetry. Canadian poetry -- 21st century. Canadian poetry. Loss (Psychology) Nature poetry. Poetry. Nature poetry. Poetry.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13161701

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ISBN:	9780228016755 0228016754 9780228017875 9780228017882
Notes:	Poems. Includes bibliographical references. Issued also in electronic format.
Summary:	"Firmly rooted in fire-haunted landscapes that are at once psychological, emotional, and fiercely real, Patrick James Errington's first collection traces the brittle boundaries between presence and absence, keeping and killing, cruelty and tenderness. In these poems human voices whisper through the natural world - a hand turns on a lamp to extinguish the stars; stones outline a sleeping form; a black eye is a storm cloud. Errington stokes vivid images, formal grace, and subtle humour into the flickers of life that hold fast against unforgiving terrain. Here language functions like a controlled burn, one that could at any moment preserve, perfect, or reduce to ash. Urgent, resonant to the bone, the swailing burns to the ember-edge of grief, memory, and control to find the wildness, wilderness, and wonder that remain. "Like figures walking through the smoke from a burning field, Errington's poems emerge with remarkable definition, clarity, and surprise." Bronwen Wallace Prize jury citation"--
Other form:	Online version: Errington, Patrick James. Swailing. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023 0228017882 9780228017882

Table of Contents:

On Highway 2A Near Blackfalds, Alberta, as Night Comes On
For a Liberation of Bees
Spooky Action at a Distance
Taxidermy in Burning House
Shrift
Burning the Fields
Half-Life
Ars Poetica, without Child or Song
Alta, Leaving
§
Missive
White Lies
Fieldwork in Secret
Little Lit
I Was a Dream My Body Had
Motel
The Call
Long Last
§
Kwashiorkor
They Don't Make Gods for Non-believers
Practice Makes Perfect
Imaginaria
What Gives
Half Measures
Light Revisions
Cold: Exchange
§
Field Studies:
1. Vignette Study, January
2. Field with Missing Figure
3. Sunset, Sylvan Lake, Alberta
4. Self-portrait as Possibility
5. Landscape Without
6. Untitled Sketch, Afterward
7. Preparatory Study for Whatever Is to Come
§
The Swailing
Call the Wolf a Wolf
Not an Elegy
When the Doctor Tells Him Her Cancer Is Back, I See, My Father Says, and Hangs Up
Inheritance
Still Life with Approaching Crow
The Point
Fire, Catching
Measures of Containment
To a Boyhood in Winter
§
In the Event of Winter
The Hold
The Opposite of Poetry
Poem, Despite Everything
Gleaning
This Was Something More
Augury
Spooky Action at a Distance
Low Tide at the End of the Peffer Burn
To Be Redacted Should It Become Necessary
Only Time
§
Never Say Never Say Never
Notes
Acknowledgments

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