Amanuensis by Phil Hall - (A chickadee) (Brick Books) - Brick Books Poetry Map (sitios de interés)
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Otty Lake, OntarioPhil Hall lives on the shores of Otty Lake in two 19th-century cabins that have been joined together as one. It was his wife’s father who spotted them, abandoned, in farmers’ fields, and moved them here, just south of Perth in the Ottawa Valley, log by log; you can still make out the roman numerals carved into the wood so that they could be rebuilt exactly as before.
Phil Hall is well known as a writer and supporter of "work poetry." He stands in solidarity with workers, with the little guy, the often faceless many. His poetry can be fierce in their service, but it is sponsored by humane inquiry, not dogma.
Amanuensis takes its title from a poem about ghostwriting, and the image plays teasingly over the whole volume. The language of this poetry, often spare and yet astonishingly sensuous, springs from mysterious though not supernatural sources in commonplace experience approached with reverence
Cover art: Hans von Marées, with Francis Lenbach by Hans von Marées, 1863
Phil Hall reads A chickadee from Amanuensis on Audioboo
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Phil Hall won the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 2011, and Griffin Poetry Prize 2012 Canadian Shortlist for his book Killdeer (BookThug - 2011)
BookThug interview with Phil Hall, author of Killdeer.