Calling Home [367] Richard Sanger Poetry You call home when you're excited or in trouble. Richard Sanger's new collection contains voices reporting from a number of far-flung states, both emotional and geographic. The book's true theme, though, is what one calls home, and the idea that home itself can be a calling. Framed by an unusual sequence of four encounters with a loved one who is both different and the same, Calling Home digs through family history and faraway winters with all the colloquial verve and formal skill that has made Sanger one of the most compelling-and enjoyable-of Canada's new poets. "An impressively assured debut, almost every poem a beautiful balance of image and narrative." -The Globe & Mail "Remarkable mastery... A poet of unusual talent and poetic maturity". -Books in Canada "Shadow Cabinet is one of the most exciting, sophisticated and achieved of recent books of poetry in Canada, one that all readers and writers of poetry should enjoy and study." -Danforth Reveiw "Very accomplished... [Sanger] writes in a voice that is all his own." -Journal of Canadian Poetry Richard Sanger's poems have appeared in numerous publications in Canada, Britain and the U.S, including Descant, Fiddlehead, The London Review of Books, Queen's Quarterly, SouthWest Review, and The Times Literary Supplement; his first collection, Shadow Cabinet, appeared in 1996. His plays, Not Spain and Two Words for Snow among them, have been nominated for the Governor General's Award and the Chalmer's Prize.

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