Re: Mary Dalton -- Interrobang

On Aug 16, 2024, David Dalton wrote
(in article<[email protected]>):

> From http://www.vehiculepress.com/q.php?EAN=9781550656688
> (where you can oder the book, though I will follow up with local
> launch details when I get them) :
>
> Interrobang
>
> Mary Dalton
>
> The spirit of the interrobang, a punctuation mark merging the questioning and
> the exclamatory, informs Mary Dalton’s compelling investigations of home
> and identity in this, her sixth poetry collection—in extraordinary poems of
> aging; of despised plants once revered; of rites and sites of community
> abandoned. The “flared mouth” of Dalton’s acclaimed musicality gives
> voice to lost souls and a lost sense of the earth. The collection’s unique
> mix of bleakness and beauty is also reflected in various riddle and
> riddle-like series with their ambiguity, open-endedness, playfulness, and
> unexpected linguistic shifts. Interrobang movingly fuses notions of
> exploration —of glancing at things slant—with an emotional range that
> feels new and visionary. This is a steely, brilliant book from a major
> Canadian poet.
>
> Signal Editions
> Poetry 2024
>
> Mary Dalton’s volumes of poetry include Merrybegot,Red Ledger, and Hooking,
> as well as two prose works: the miscellany Edge and The Vernacular Strain in
> Newfoundland Poetry, a print version of her 2022 Pratt Lecture. Dalton’s
> work has been widely anthologized in Canada and abroad. She has won numerous
> awards, including the E.J. Pratt Poetry Award, and been shortlisted for
> various others, among them the Pat Lowther Award, the Atlantic Poetry Award,
> and the Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry. She lives in St. John’s,
> Newfoundland.

For those in or near St. John’s, Newfoundland, there will be
a launch party on Thursday, September 19 from 7--9 p.m.
in the Second Space Gallery in the basement of the LSPU Hall
on Victoria Street. (Cash bar, free nibbles, and general merriment.)