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POETRY
ISBN:
9781894770521
Paper
$16.95
80
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Winter, the unwelcome visitor is a five-section poetic
cycle amending the ordinary with the extraordinary. The work
shows versatility in style and form and yet maintains poetic
excellence:
a careful balance of metaphor, imagery and thought. Always
experimental, there is no one style that characterizes the book.
From brief and academic, to wordy and effusive, the style shifts
according to the subject. Unstintingly political, unforgivingly
critical of commonly held ideas about the relationship of humans
to the natural world and to each other, the relevance of this
work to both a Canadian and an international audience is
undeniable.
“Some of these poems are vivid evocations of South Africa’s
Western Cape, and elegies of loss; others capture moments of
longing and desire between lovers, as well as
passages of bitterness.” —JM Coetzee
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Shaista Justin
emigrated to Canada at the age of
six and grew up in Toronto where she currently lives with her
husband and two children. Extensive travel has contributed to
her fascination with colonization and the contemporary
manifestations of historical tragedies. Her dominant passions
are writing fiction, producing theatre, and academic research in
the fields of Post-Colonial Literature & Theory, Eco-criticism,
Feminist Theory and the 18th-Century. She has published in
The Fiddlehead & New Contrast and works freelance as
a writer and editor.
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