{"product_id":"almost-beauty-sue-sinclair-9781773102344","title":"Almost Beauty: New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, New Brunswick Book Award (Poetry) and Alcuin Society Book Design Awards Third Prize (Poetry) \u003cbr\u003eFinalist, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSue Sinclair has been praised for her \"crisp, lyrical poems imbued with subtle, subtextual philosophic musings\" (\u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e). She has been described as a poet who \"writes her way to a new understanding of the world and carries her readers with her\" (\u003ci\u003eJournal of Canadian Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e). Sinclair's debut collection, \u003ci\u003eSecrets of Weather and Hope\u003c\/i\u003e, was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award, while subsequent collections have earned a place on the Globe Top 100 list (\u003ci\u003eMortal Arguments\u003c\/i\u003e), won the IPPY Poetry Award (\u003ci\u003eThe Drunken Lovely Bird\u003c\/i\u003e), and the Pat Lowther Award (\u003ci\u003eHeaven's Thieves\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection includes an introductory essay by editor and poet Ross Leckie, over one hundred selected poems from Sinclair's twenty-year career, and new poems that consider the poet's evolving relationships with the idea of beauty and with the more-than-human world in a time of manufactured upheaval. The new poems, many never-before published, exemplify Sinclair's masterful powers of observation and her precise, arresting language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sue Sinclair\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1773102346\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781773102344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Goose Lane Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/22\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Sue Sinclair","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43993224839423,"sku":"9781773102344","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_93588076-ffcf-4b18-ac67-fa46350353cc.jpg?v=1683323196","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/almost-beauty-sue-sinclair-9781773102344","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}