Octopus

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As apt to channel the confessionalism of Anne Sexton as the red-in-tooth-and-claw nature poetry of Ted Hughes, Patrick Warner's voice ranges freely from the colloquial to the baroque. By harboring and honoring such fraught tensions, Warner has built a taut and original body of work. In Octopus we have him at his best.

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PRAISE FOR OCTOPUS

Warner has a wonderful skill for wielding rhythm and rhyme...engaging and memorable. --Canadian Literature

PRAISE FOR PATRICK WARNER

"Warner's poems can be comical, tender, brutal ... they are always enlightening in their implied connections, sublime in their musical inventiveness."--Sunday Independent

"I don't know if anyone in contemporary poetry is bearing more eloquent, precisely strange witness to the certainty of their doubts than Warner."--ARC Poetry Magazine

Author Bio

Patrick Warner was born in Claremorris, Co. Mayo, Ireland in 1963. He has published four collections of poetry: All Manner of Misunderstanding (Killick Press, 2001), There, there (Signal Editions, 2005), Mole (House of Anansi Press, 2009), and Perfection (Goose Lane/Ice House, 2012). He has also published two novels: Double Talk (Breakwater, 2011) and One Hit Wonders (Breakwater, 2015). He is the Rare Books and Special Collections Librarian for Memorial University Libraries.