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Poetry. CONFLICT interweaves ghosts, bad communication, the uncanny and the archival, to create a collection of poems that breaks down remembrance into abandoned historic markers, jet fuel, keening, or teeth. What you are given (this is a gift) is an insistent refusal to silence or shift. In exchange, the reader faces the impossibility of erasure and a gritty resistance. CONFLICT swells with the fractures and lacings in language, motion, architecture, and emotion; between individuals, systems, and mechanical silences.
"Charged with high frequency syntax, kinetic with sonic flux, McNair's CONFLICT sends out a spirited transmission. Accruing a fervor and defiance, her poems push through the static of disjuncture--and connect with strength and spark. Her signal is crystal-filtered:
fiat fiat fiat."--Sandra Ridley
About the author
CHRISTINE MCNAIR is the author of
Charm (winner of the 2018 Archibald Lampman Award),
Conflict (finalist for the City of Ottawa Book Award, the Archibald Lampman Award, and the ReLit Award for Poetry), and
Toxemia. She was also nominated for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. Her chapbook
pleasantries and other misdemeanours was shortlisted for the bpNichol Chapbook Award. Her work has appeared in sundry literary journals and anthologies. McNair lives in Ottawa where she works as a book doctor.
