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Informationen zum Autor MICHAEL CRUMMEY is the author of twelve books of poetry and fiction. He was the inaugural winner of the $50,000 Writers¿ Trust Fellowship in recognition of ¿exceptional creative ability and outstanding promise¿ in his work to date. His most recent novel, The Innocents, won the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General¿s Literary Award, and the Rogers Writers¿ Trust Fiction Prize. Little Dogs: New and Selected Poems appeared in 2017. He lives in St. John¿s, where he is starting to feel his age. Klappentext Michael Crummey's first collection in a decade has something for everyone: Love and marriage and airport grief; how not to get laid in a Newfoundland mining town; total immersion baptism; the grand machinery of decay; migrant music and invisible crowns and mortifying engagements with babysitters; the transcendent properties of home brew. Whether charting the merciless complications of childhood, or the unpredictable consolations of middle age, these are poems of magic and ruin. "Under the Keel" affirms Crummey's place as one of our necessary writers. Zusammenfassung The brilliant new collection from Michael Crummey, bestselling author of Galore . Michael Crummey’s first collection in a decade has something for everyone: Love and marriage and airport grief; how not to get laid in a Newfoundland mining town; total immersion baptism; the grand machinery of decay; migrant music and invisible crowns and mortifying engagements with babysitters; the transcendent properties of home brew. Whether charting the merciless complications of childhood, or the unpredictable consolations of middle age, these are poems of magic and ruin. Under the Keel affirms Crummey’s place as one of our necessary writers.
