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. Over the past fifteen years, by harboring and honoring such fraught tensions. In
Octopus we have him at his best.
About the author
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.
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