Spar: Words in Place
by Peter Sanger

April 2002 | Books & reading | $21.95 CAN | $21.95 US
1894031547 | 9781894031547 | Trade Paper

Peter Sanger's poetry has always demonstrated his extraordinary focus and vigorous engagement with the objects that surround him. These four essays find their basis in the everyday stuff of backwoods Nova Scotia, demonstrating how a road with two names, a crooked knife, an abandoned shipyard and a fragment of gypsum might hone our thoughts and shape our sense of words in place.

Author Biography

Peter Sanger has published seven collections of poetry, including Earth Moth (1991) and Arborealis (2005), a collaborative project with photographer Thaddeus Holownia. His recent prose work includes White Salt Mountain: Words in Time (GP, 2005) and Spar: Words in Place (GP, 2002). His most recent publication is a collection of poetry entitled Aiken Drum (GP, 2006). Sanger has been the poetry editor of The Antigonish Review since 1985. He lives in South Maitland, Nova Scotia.

Reviews

"Prose, Sophocles says, is the kind of poetry that walks instead of dances – or that is what prose was when Plato was a kid. That is the kind of walking, and the kind of poetry, Sanger has given us here. I've never seen the Shubenacadie River, nor set foot on Sanger's farm, but he has taught me how to love them, as only one who knows where home is can." Robert Bringhurst, Globe and Mail