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Continent
  • Published: 16 May 2023
  • ISBN: 9780771004476
  • Imprint: McClelland & Stewart
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 88
  • RRP: $35.00
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Continent

Poems

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21 Mar 2023
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16 May 2023
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“These poems buckle and drift in ways that reveal their continental scope. The I of these poems offers its critical lament, but it never overlooks beauty.” --Kaie Kellough

The poems in Continent ask to be done with presuming, knowing, and defining. They trace maps laid across lands and peoples by force, voiced by a speaker both engaged in attendingto this ongoing violence and unable to escape complicity with it. Urgent, visceral, emotionally striking, Aaron Boothby’s debut collection asks the question: how can we see, listen, and feel an ongoing catastrophe and look for what is beyond it?
  • Published: 16 May 2023
  • ISBN: 9780771004476
  • Imprint: McClelland & Stewart
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 88
  • RRP: $35.00
Categories:

Praise for Continent

Aaron Boothby describing the online space he co-created:
“I read and notice openings, thresholds, doorways. To not be owed anything, to not demand someone’s words be for me or for us, to meet those words as themselves, on their own terms not even if they disrupt whatever I find sensible . . . refusing the authority of this assessment in favour of entering into a continual conversation.” —Aaron Boothby in the Town Crier