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Sue Sinclair studied at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, graduated in 1994 and then continued her education at the University of New Brunswick.

The world’s beauty is Sinclair’s subject in the philosophically large-scaled and perceptually acute Breaker. Organized into four cleanly named sections – Faith, Work, Leisure, and Sleep – Breaker is an account of the perceptor’s experience of beauty, which is nothing as simple as the occasional glimpse of a rose.

Her perception is acutely focused and rigorous; and she is acutely self-aware. She is not afraid of words::text like "beauty" or "being," yet, because of the intensity of her vision, she never uses them as clichés. Her gift for metaphor is astonishing and may remind some readers of the young Roo Borson.

"In these poems, ‘the world lifts its head/and clarity pours from its back.' The world-reading in Sue Sinclair's Breaker, the ontology of the book, is magical and feels deeply true.

All objects here exercise the power of a profound affective gravity; cities, islands, gardens and the savouring mind itself pull and accommodate the one who looks hard. Sinclair's poems shape us to be just this sort of fierce viewer. They have a moving, extraordinary facility to discern, taste, the sweet depths of things." - Tim Lilburn

Cover art: Photograph by Peter Sinclair

Sue Sinclair reads Asleep from Breaker on Audioboo

Sleep

Breaker by Sue Sinclair by John Wall Barger (Prairie Fire, March 2009)

Sinclair’s imagery lovely; Bloom sings of freedom (Halifax Chronicle Herald, July 12, 2009)

Breaker by Sue Sinclair(poetryreviews.ca - March 2009)

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