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About this book
"the language of the waterway / the name / the train's route through bliss / to" When the poet and novelist David Helwig - a recipient of the Matt Cohen Prize for lifetime achievement and a member of the Order of Canada - died in October 2018, he left behind a substantial catalogue of unpublished work. A House in Memory, a selection of Helwig's last poems, was assembled by his daughter, Maggie. It shows an author still at the height of his powers, creating work in complex formal structures, contemplating mortality, memory, and the landscape of his adopted home of Prince Edward Island, and paying tribute to his literary predecessors. The collection also includes unpublished poems from earlier in Helwig's career. Ranging widely through time, space, and literary tradition, A House in Memory features some deeply personal poems. As Maggie Helwig says of her father, "he could not cease to be a poet as long as he had breath in this world.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- I – LATE POEMS (2015–2018)
- WAITING
- UNTITLED
- COUNTRY POEMS AFTER VIRGIL’S GEORGICS
- “… ALSO IN REJOICING …”
- ON YOUR 18TH
- NIGHT WORDS FOR ALL THE ISLANDS
- THREE LYRICS
- OEDIPUS AT THE CROSSROADS
- THE NIECES
- RHYMELESS IN SEASON
- QUATRAINS
- QUATRE ÉTUDES
- MIDSUMMER
- HIGH UP ON THE TOP FLOOR
- CLOCKWISE
- DAHLIAS
- ENDURING PROPHECY
- THAW
- IMPROVISATIONS
- QUEEN ANNE’S LACE
- MACDONALD PARK: SEPTEMBER, 2015
- POLECAT SONG
- SPRING
- MAY RAIN
- NAUSICAA MEETS A STRANGER
- ALIEN NEWCOMERS
- YOU, AS A STRANGER
- GOING AWAY NOW
- TRAVEL DOCUMENTS FOR ALL SOULS
- ENVOI
- VARADERO, 2017
- EPILOGUES TO SUMMER
- HYMN FOR NO SINGING
- O SUMMERLAND
- PRAYER
- APPROACHING THE STRAIT
- DINNER WITH RANDOM GODS
- (LES PRÉLUDES, SONNET BEFORE CREATION)
- MIGRATION IN ORANGE
- THE PANTHEON
- PACIFIC
- ZINNIAS IMPOSED
- THE ART HISTORY BRIEF SONNET
- (DES TRISTES ESPRITS: SONNET FROM HISTORY)
- FARMSCAPE
- A SHADE-SONNET COMES
- IMITATIONS OF HAFIZ
- NOVEMBER FOOTNOTE (MOON)
- II – A SELECTION OF EARLIER POEMS
- THE WRONG SIDE OF THE PARK
- OLD FRIENDS
- GETTING TO MISSOURI
- FOR BILL IN APRIL
- VINE STREET
- AT THE MUSEUM
- UNTITLED
- TRAVELLING
- SUMMER AGAIN
- ROSACEAE
- SELF-PORTRAIT: AS AN OLD HOUSE
- DAMAGE
- MEMORIAL
- NOCTURNE: JOHN FIELD
- AUBADE
- GALLUS ABSCONDITUS
- ILLUMINATIONS
- KENTVILLE, OCTOBER
- TWO VIEWS
- last lines
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