Impact: The Titanic Poems

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Evocative poems about the Titanic on the 100th anniversary of it's sinking. Delving into many of the hidden and overlooked aspects of the Titanic tragedy. While many readers will be familiar with stories from other books or films, this collection offers a new take with research-based poems that act as snapshots of the people and places connected to the ship as well as the ship herself. Poignant and powerful, this title will commerate those who died in the tragedy during a time of high interest in the event.

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Billeh Nickerson is the author of two poetry collections, both published by Arsenal: McPoems and The Asthmatic Glassblower, nominated for the Publishing Triangle Poetry Prize. He is also the author of the humorous essay collection Let Me Kiss it Better: Elixirs for the Not So Straight and Narrow, and co-editor of Seminal: The Anthology of Canada's Gay Male Poets with John Barton. He is the past editor of the literary journals Event and Prism international and currently teaches creative writing at Kwantlen University in Vancouver.