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Everything Arrives at the Light

Stephen Osborne

If a poem is going to grab you, it has to do it right away, as Lorna Crozier's poems do. Here are a few openers from her new book, Everything Arrives at the Light (McClelland & Stewart): "He had a good wife, he said, / she did not complete his sentences"; "If a woman could become / a horse, she would be one:" "I stand across from the man I haven't seen / in fifteen years. He is my husband." And my personal favourite: "I miss the smokers, the heavy drinkers." Crozier has a wonderful narrative voice and many of her poems feel like whole stories told in a few breaths. All of which makes this book hard to put down; in fact you'll want to read it all at one sitting.

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Stephen Osborne

Stephen Osborne is a co-founder and contributing publisher of Geist. He is the award-winning writer of Ice & Fire: Dispatches from the New World and dozens of shorter works, many of which can be read at geist.com.


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