Shortlisted for the 2002 Gerald Lampert Award
Sue Sinclair has written three previous books of poetry, Secrets of Weather & Hope, Mortal Arguments, and The Drunken Lovely Bird. Her work has been nominated for awards including the Gerald Lampert and Pat Lowther Awards and the Atlantic Book Prize for Poetry. Secrets of Weather & Hope was a Globe 100 title.
Sue Sinclair’s poems speak from that precise place where our perception of the world and our capacity for language meet and embrace, where our sense of experience goes to get sharpened and refreshed.
That experience might involve the inner lives of clouds, the flourishing and passing of a tulip, the evocative scent of wolf willow, or the intricate arts of Bach and Virginia Woolf.
These poems are deft, musical, and quick in the moment, alive to the sensuous surface and the meditative depth, their antennae fully extended.
Cover art: 'Torbay Clouds', photograph by Peter Sinclair
Sue Sinclair reads Upstream from Secrets of Weather & Hope on Audioboo
A grouping of poems by Sue Sinclair - YouTube
Secrets of Weather and Hope. Mortal Arguments. By Sue Sinclair - Review (Danforth Review, 2007)
Sue Sinclair. Secrets of Weather & Hope - Review (Arc 48 Summer 2002)
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