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Creamsicle Stick Shivs
Poems
By John Stiles
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John Stiles' first collection of poetry, Scouts Are Cancelled, explored the dialect and the dilemmas of down-home life in Nova Scotia's rural Annapolis Valley.
In his second collection, the poet expands his horizons. Chronicling his movements from Canada's east coast to Toronto's self-obsessed urban core, following his heart around the world to find love and employment in England, these poems resonate with profound ideas and offbeat observations on people and place, on the variables that combine to create a person's identity, and what it means to leave, to seek, and to desire a home.
Alive with Stiles' distinct linguistic charms and poetic good nature, Creamsicle Stick Shivs is a book of subtle inventiveness and undeniable roguish delight.
Praise for Scouts Are Cancelled:
"... these are stylish, rich, satirical, excellent narrative poems."
— George Elliott Clarke
"It is the poems themselves, chock full of idiom and incident and a straightforward, everyman's lyricism, that linger and resonate."
— The Danforth Review
"Stiles' poems are presented in a regional dialect that is humorous yet frighteningly accurate ... thoroughly enjoyable."
— Taddle Creek
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Poetry ·
Canada $11.95 · US $9.95 · UK £5.95 ·
Trade paperback
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1-897178-18-2
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72 pages
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5" x 8"
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Insomniac Press
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