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Deepwater Vee

By Melanie Siebert

By Melanie Siebert

By Melanie Siebert

By Melanie Siebert

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Category: Poetry

Category: Poetry

Paperback $15.50

Mar 30, 2010 | ISBN 9780771080333

Ebook $11.99

Mar 30, 2010 | ISBN 9780771080340

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    About Deepwater Vee

    Melanie Siebert’s stunning debut collection travels remote northern rivers, as well as two of Canada’s most threatened rivers, the Athabasca and the North Saskatchewan. These rivers push the poems into a contemplation of loss and into the terrain of Alexander Mackenzie’s dreams, a busker’s broken-down street riffs, and the borderland wanderings of a grandmother whose absence is felt as a presence. The poems’ currents are turbulent, braided, submerged. Narrative streams appear like tributaries glimpsed through brush, and then veer into unexpected territories, where boundaries blur – between the self and the other, between the living and the dead, between the human and the wild – and loss carries with it both music and silence. In this virtuoso collection, Melanie Siebert has transformed language into that rarest thing, a singular poetic vision.

    About Deepwater Vee

    Melanie Siebert’s stunning debut collection travels remote northern rivers, as well as two of Canada’s most threatened rivers, the Athabasca and the North Saskatchewan. These rivers push the poems into a contemplation of loss and into the terrain of Alexander Mackenzie’s dreams, a busker’s broken-down street riffs, and the borderland wanderings of a grandmother whose absence is felt as a presence. The poems’ currents are turbulent, braided, submerged. Narrative streams appear like tributaries glimpsed through brush, and then veer into unexpected territories, where boundaries blur – between the self and the other, between the living and the dead, between the human and the wild – and loss carries with it both music and silence. In this virtuoso collection, Melanie Siebert has transformed language into that rarest thing, a singular poetic vision.

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    About Melanie Siebert

    MELANIE SIEBERT is the author of Deepwater Vee, a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. Her nonfiction book Heads Up: Changing Minds on Mental Health won the Lane Anderson Award for best science writing for young readers… More about Melanie Siebert

    About Melanie Siebert

    MELANIE SIEBERT is the author of Deepwater Vee, a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. Her nonfiction book Heads Up: Changing Minds on Mental Health won the Lane Anderson Award for best science writing for young readers… More about Melanie Siebert

    Product Details

    Category: Poetry

    Paperback | $15.50
    Published by McClelland & Stewart
    Mar 30, 2010 | 96 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9780771080333

    Category: Poetry

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by McClelland & Stewart
    Mar 30, 2010 | 112 Pages | ISBN 9780771080340

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    Awards

    Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry FINALIST 2010

    Table Of Contents

    Current
    Deepwater Vee
    Bellanca Esker
    Alsek Lake
    Bridge to Shell’s Albian Mine, Downstream, River Right
    Busker
    Busker
    Surf City
    Mackenzie ’s Dream
    Choker
    Busker
    Skull Canyon
    Unnamed Creek
    Busker
    Mackenzie ’s Dream
    Grandmother
    Grandmother
    Hell Roaring Creek
    Busker
    Grass Hills, River Left, Downstream of Battleford
    Grandmother
    The Limit of Travels in This Direction
    Busker
    Mackenzie, Having Not Seen a Star Since Leaving Athabasca
    Busker
    Shifting, Overrun, the Symptoms, the Shoals Building
    D’Aoust Esker
    Nadlok—place where the deer cross
    Map Unrolled on the Table
    Grandmother
    Letter to Kitty, Never Written
    Long After Leaving, Being Overtaken with the Consequences of Suffering in the Northwest
    Letter to Kitty, Never Written
    Letter to Kitty, Never Written
    Letter to Kitty, Never Written
    Letter to Kitty, Never Written
    Letter to Kitty, Never Written
    Dusk
    Windbound, Unnamed Camp
    Tlogotsho—big place of grass
    Double-Barrel Lake
    The Splits
    Notes
    Acknowledgements

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