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Miscreations, the second collection by Grant Loveys, mulls over the metaphorical concept of miscreation - how people, objects, and relationships are imperfectly designed by their various creators - through the use of direct, visceral language, and frank, sometimes shocking, imagery.
Unconcerned with aesthetic imperfections, Miscreations focuses instead on how people and situations can be created from unstable, often opposing, elements and examines how these people and situations manage to survive. This is poetry that looks beyond a misprinted shirt and deep into the person wearing it . . . beyond empty memes and Instagram platitudes and into the complicated, flawed and searching human readers who navigate a world that is often at odds with itself.
If everyone and everything has been created, what does it mean to be miscreated? Grant Loveys's new collection finds a place for the world's miscreations and examines how and why they survive.
Grant Loveys's Our Gleaming Bones Unrobed was The Globe and Mail Readers' Pick for the best poetry collection of 2012. He lives in Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Elsewhere
At midnight the shopping mall is dark except for one glass walled porch lit with mortuary fluorescence. Inside two drunks pirouette with a cardboard woman. Their dilated shadows stretch like columns of smoke over the parking lot.
I interrupt their dance -- one drunk removes his hand from a cardboard breast.
They have bent her head back with kisses.
It flops crudely between her corrugated shoulder blades, between the two points where wings would have burst from her back had she been an angel.
In the morning, the sun unfurls over the shopping mall and a woman's cardboard head rises from the gutter, caught in the wake of a passing bus -- a spirit radiant and lost and looking for a host.
Short Description
If everyone and everything has been created, what does it mean to be miscreated? Grant Loveys's new collection finds a place for the world's miscreations and examines how and why they survive.
Sales and Market Bullets
• Winner of the 2011 Cuffer Prize for Fiction.
Audience
• Readers of Canadian poetry
• Readers of Loveys's previous work
• Outreach to national major dailies
• Reviews in national and regional literary publications
• Regional media focus on Canada's east coast
• Author participation in reading series events across Canada
• Social media promotion focusing on book cover art
• Excerpt campaign for National Poetry month (April)
• Geotargeted social media ads for Canadian East Coast and Newfoundland
Unconcerned with aesthetic imperfections, Miscreations focuses instead on how people and situations can be created from unstable, often opposing, elements and examines how these people and situations manage to survive. This is poetry that looks beyond a misprinted shirt and deep into the person wearing it . . . beyond empty memes and Instagram platitudes and into the complicated, flawed and searching human readers who navigate a world that is often at odds with itself.
If everyone and everything has been created, what does it mean to be miscreated? Grant Loveys's new collection finds a place for the world's miscreations and examines how and why they survive.
Grant Loveys's Our Gleaming Bones Unrobed was The Globe and Mail Readers' Pick for the best poetry collection of 2012. He lives in Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Elsewhere
At midnight the shopping mall is dark except for one glass walled porch lit with mortuary fluorescence. Inside two drunks pirouette with a cardboard woman. Their dilated shadows stretch like columns of smoke over the parking lot.
I interrupt their dance -- one drunk removes his hand from a cardboard breast.
They have bent her head back with kisses.
It flops crudely between her corrugated shoulder blades, between the two points where wings would have burst from her back had she been an angel.
In the morning, the sun unfurls over the shopping mall and a woman's cardboard head rises from the gutter, caught in the wake of a passing bus -- a spirit radiant and lost and looking for a host.
Short Description
If everyone and everything has been created, what does it mean to be miscreated? Grant Loveys's new collection finds a place for the world's miscreations and examines how and why they survive.
Sales and Market Bullets
• Winner of the 2011 Cuffer Prize for Fiction.
Audience
• Readers of Canadian poetry
• Readers of Loveys's previous work
• Outreach to national major dailies
• Reviews in national and regional literary publications
• Regional media focus on Canada's east coast
• Author participation in reading series events across Canada
• Social media promotion focusing on book cover art
• Excerpt campaign for National Poetry month (April)
• Geotargeted social media ads for Canadian East Coast and Newfoundland