Each One a Furnace
  • Published: 19 April 2022
  • ISBN: 9780771051586
  • Imprint: McClelland & Stewart
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $32.99
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Each One a Furnace

Poems

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Second Place Winner of the 2023 RCLAS Fred Cogswell Award For Excellence In Poetry

From the author of The Junta of Happenstance, here is a brilliant new collection of poems—a burning chronicle of passage and stillness and restlessness.

Second Place Winner of the 2023 RCLAS Fred Cogswell Award For Excellence In Poetry

From the author of The Junta of Happenstance, here is a brilliant new collection of poems—a burning chronicle of passage and stillness and restlessness.

DOROTHY LIVESAY POETRY PRIZE, FINALIST
FRED COGSWELL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN POETRY, LONGLIST


Each One a Furnace explores (im)migration, diasporas, transience, and instability by following the behaviour, and abundant variety, of finches. The often-migratory birds in these poems typify the unrest, and inability to rest, that animate the lives of billions in the modern world. Out of the register of ornithology, themes of difficulty, adversity, and migrancy, urban ennui, and the psychic struggles of diasporic peoples take shape as those unable to be at rest in the world take to improbable flight. 

Trailing the global mobility of birds, in urban and non-urban settings, in historical and contemporary contexts, and through the metaphysical and concrete, Each One a Furnace is a chronicle of struggle within, and between, cultures.
  • Published: 19 April 2022
  • ISBN: 9780771051586
  • Imprint: McClelland & Stewart
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $32.99
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Praise for Each One a Furnace

Praise for Tolu Oloruntoba’s debut collection, The Junta of Happenstance:

  • “Tolu Oloruntoba’s The Junta of Happenstance left me dazzled to the point of squinting. In every poem, some piece of gorgeous, quotable language glittered in my eye: ‘Wake up. It’s the crescendo. / Here comes your / redaction from the world.’ The collection is neither burdened, victimized, nor apologetic about race. It does not put on race as a pair of glasses. Race is more like an eyeball. One gets the sense that Oloruntoba is the alluring stranger, scribbling into a steno, ‘submerged into words on the bus,’ seemingly absorbed in his world but really taking note of us.” —Ian Williams, author of Reproduction

Praise for Tolu Oloruntoba’s debut collection, The Junta of Happenstance:

  • “Tolu Oloruntoba’s The Junta of Happenstance left me dazzled to the point of squinting. In every poem, some piece of gorgeous, quotable language glittered in my eye: ‘Wake up. It’s the crescendo. / Here comes your / redaction from the world.’ The collection is neither burdened, victimized, nor apologetic about race. It does not put on race as a pair of glasses. Race is more like an eyeball. One gets the sense that Oloruntoba is the alluring stranger, scribbling into a steno, ‘submerged into words on the bus,’ seemingly absorbed in his world but really taking note of us.” —Ian Williams, author of Reproduction

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