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Breathing Fire II is Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane's new selection of Canada's finest young poets.
Nine years ago the first volume of Breathing Fire was published to rave reviews, introducing 31 of Canada's finest new poets to a wide and appreciative audience of readers. The anthology has since gone into several printings and become a basic text in schools and universities across the country. And the poets within, including Michael Redhill, Karen Solie, Tim Bowling, Stephanie Bolster, Michael Crummey, Evelyn Lau, Sue Goyette and Carmine Starnino, have gone on to develop and captivate wide readerships of their own.
Today a new and exciting generation of poets has come of age. Some, including Tammy Armstrong, Adam Dickinson, George Murray, Alison Pick, Shane Rhodes, matt robinson, Laisha Rosnau and Nathalie Stephens, have already put out books, and have even won or been shortlisted for major awards. Others with work just as compelling will be introduced for the first time. Breathing Fire 2 collects the best from all 33 of these writers, proudly presenting the next generation of Canada's poets to the world.
Breathing Fire II is Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane's new selection of Canada's finest young poets.
Nine years ago the first volume of Breathing Fire was published to rave reviews, introducing 31 of Canada's finest new poets to a wide and appreciative audience of readers. The anthology has since gone into several printings and become a basic text in schools and universities across the country. And the poets within, including Michael Redhill, Karen Solie, Tim Bowling, Stephanie Bolster, Michael Crummey, Evelyn Lau, Sue Goyette and Carmine Starnino, have gone on to develop and captivate wide readerships of their own.
Today a new and exciting generation of poets has come of age. Some, including Tammy Armstrong, Adam Dickinson, George Murray, Alison Pick, Shane Rhodes, matt robinson, Laisha Rosnau and Nathalie Stephens, have already put out books, and have even won or been shortlisted for major awards. Others with work just as compelling will be introduced for the first time. Breathing Fire 2 collects the best from all 33 of these writers, proudly presenting the next generation of Canada's poets to the world.
Tammy Armstrong
Sheri Benning
Amy Bespflug
Shane Book
Mark Callanan
Brad Cran
Joe Denham
Adam Dickinson
Triny Finlay
Adam Getty
warren heiti
Jason Heroux
Ray Hsu
Chris Hutchinson
Gillian Jerome
Anita Lahey
Amanda Lamarche
Chandra Mayor
Steve McOrmond
Alayna Munce
George Murray
Jada-Gabrielle Pape
Alison Pick
Steven Price
Matt Rader
Shane Rhodes
matt robinson
Laisha Rosnau
David Seymour
Sue Sinclair
Nathalie Stephens
Sheryda Warrener
Zoe Whittall
Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane, Editors
This writing is driven by an underlying, ineffable vitality, a
legitimacy -- a sense that the words are locked inexorably in place
and the poet knows it ... There's much to like in Breathing
Fire.
--Jon Mooallem, Books in Canada
In Breathing Fire 2 the latest collection of young Canadian poets
from Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane, we are given a glimpse of the
literary world to come ... There is urgency in their words, a cry
to be heard ... If poetry allows us to distill our experiences of
the world into small snapshots of meaning and truth, then we will
have to turn to these new writers -- inhabitants of this new world
-- to translate it for us. We will be in good hands.
--Byrna Hallam, The Martlet
Readers of the first edition of Breathing Fire, published nine
years ago, will remember a formidable collection of young voices
largely unknown to Canada's poetry scene. In Lorna Crozier and
Patrick Lane's second introduction to "Canada's New Poets," the
results are even more impressive.
--Shannon Cowan, Globe and Mail
Crozier and Lane write their intro in celebration, excitement, and
gratitude for the good poems they found. For that, and for all
their time and attention, they deserve praise ... [T]he book can
give you hours of intense reading engagement and coax you to search
for books you might have taken much longer to discover, or never
discovered. A decade or two from now ... Breathing Fire 2 is likely
to be ... a historical time-capsule.
--Brian Bartlett, The Malahat Review
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