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the swailing
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Here the long edge / of town Low / winter fog / ⌠My breath / my offering We are / our bodies burning Firmly rooted in fire-haunted landscapes that are at once psychological, emotional, and fiercely real, Patrick 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 â 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.
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- Cover
- Copyright
- 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 DONâT MAKE GODSFOR NON-BELIEVERS
- PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT
- IMAGINARIA
- WHAT GIVES
- HALF MEASURES
- LIGHT REVISIONS
- COLD: EXCHANGE
- §
- FIELD STUDIES
- §
- 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