New And Collected Poems

For almost fifty years, Tom Dawe has stood as one of the most respected and admired poets in Newfoundland. This definitive, necessary collection spans five decades of poetic achievement, reprinting each of Dawe’s published collections while gathering previously uncollected poems along with a stunning body of new work. This volume stands as a testament to a monumental achievement for readers both at home and abroad.

Contributors

Tom Dawe

Tom Dawe was born in long Pond/manuels, conception Bay, newfoundland. He has worked as a high-school teacher, professor of english, visual artist, editor, writer, and poet. He is the author of eighteen books, including poetry, fiction, dramatic script, folklore, and children’s literature.

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19 trek – tommy – to mary oliver – visitation – florence hardy – aquarius – at l’anse aux meadows – witness – bonfire – charlie brown … 62 $6.20

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all to ourselves – bess – thoreau – darwin – elsewhere: a poem to emily – coffin maker – gnostic – cat poem – my cat in noah’s ark – … 63 $6.30

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in hardy country – a fairy tale – riddle – still life – devil at the dance – the bogey man – solstice, outport childhood – uncle – peppermint rock … 99 $9.90

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ghosts – the far island – the potato ground – interval – once by the atlantic – the scythe – white horses – the guitar player – along that coast … 35 $3.50

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inuk – stranger at hemlock cove – the trapper – the cellar – ishmael – from the lighthouse – scape – noah – house on the coast – scarecrow … 49 $4.90

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the sculpin – dog-fish summer – apparition – feathers – snow-poem suggestion – a farewell to arms – children from porlock – ottawa october crisis, 1970 … 33 $3.30

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west country cemetery – after beethoven – again the owl… – abandoned lighthouse – after kazantzakis – long after – misty twilight – suspended … 10 $1.00