Sympathy for the Couriers Peter Richardson
Poetry
Winner of A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry
Sympathy for the Couriers is a collection of messages from the border region of our lives—that vast allegorized territory of cheap self-deceptions and illusions. By turns comical and grim, these new poems feature Peter Richardson at his most ventriloquistic. The “couriers” in question are the banged-up, long-suffering, Dantesque voices who, speaking through the poet, deliver their news: heartfelt, often heartbreaking admissions that, nonetheless, are always buoyant with aphoristic brio and panache. But the most important messenger here is Richardson himself, who having establishing a reputation as one of Canada’s best poets, has given us his most challenging book.
Peter Richardson’s first book, A Tinkers’ Picnic was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award in 1999. His second book, An ABC of Belly Work (2003) was a finalist for the Acorn-Plantos Award. He lives in Gatineau, Quebec.
Praise for Peter Richardson's work:
“Richardson has an excellent sense of pacing and shows himself to be a master of the long sentence when he needs to be. Never very far from either humour or pleasure, these poems allow the reader to come away with a refreshed sense of the world.” —Journal of Canadian
ISBN: 978-1-55065-234-5