the swailing
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the swailing

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the swailing

About this book

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 – 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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. CONTENTS
  4. §
  5. ON HIGHWAY 2A NEAR BLACKFALDS,ALBERTA, AS NIGHT COMES ON
  6. FOR A LIBERATION OF BEES
  7. SPOOKY ACTION AT A DISTANCE
  8. TAXIDERMY IN BURNING HOUSE
  9. SHRIFT
  10. BURNING THE FIELDS
  11. HALF-LIFE
  12. ARS POETICA, WITHOUT CHILD OR SONG
  13. ALTA, LEAVING
  14. §
  15. MISSIVE
  16. WHITE LIES
  17. FIELDWORK IN SECRET
  18. LITTLE LIT
  19. I WAS A DREAM MY BODY HAD
  20. MOTEL
  21. THE CALL
  22. LONG LAST
  23. §
  24. KWASHIORKOR
  25. THEY DON’T MAKE GODSFOR NON-BELIEVERS
  26. PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT
  27. IMAGINARIA
  28. WHAT GIVES
  29. HALF MEASURES
  30. LIGHT REVISIONS
  31. COLD: EXCHANGE
  32. §
  33. FIELD STUDIES
  34. §
  35. THE SWAILING
  36. CALL THE WOLF A WOLF
  37. NOT AN ELEGY
  38. WHEN THE DOCTOR TELLS HIM HER CANCER IS BACK, I SEE, MY FATHER SAYS, AND HANGS UP
  39. INHERITANCE
  40. STILL LIFE WITH APPROACHING CROW
  41. THE POINT
  42. FIRE, CATCHING
  43. MEASURES OF CONTAINMENT
  44. TO A BOYHOOD IN WINTER
  45. §
  46. IN THE EVENT OF WINTER
  47. THE HOLD
  48. THE OPPOSITE OF POETRY
  49. POEM, DESPITE EVERYTHING
  50. GLEANING
  51. THIS WAS SOMETHING MORE
  52. AUGURY
  53. SPOOKY ACTION AT A DISTANCE
  54. LOW TIDE AT THE END OF THE PEFFER BURN
  55. TO BE REDACTED SHOULD IT BECOME NECESSARY
  56. ONLY TIME
  57. §
  58. NEVER SAY NEVER SAY NEVER
  59. NOTES
  60. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS