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Sue Sinclair was raised in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, and studied at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, graduated in 1994 and then continued her education at the University of New Brunswick. Sinclair's first collection of poetry, Secrets of Weather and Hope (2001), was a finalist for the 2002 Gerald Lampert Award.

Mortal Arguments (2003) was a finalist for the Atlantic Poetry Prize. Her third collection, "The Drunken Lovely Bird," won the International Independent Publisher's Award for Poetry.

Mortal Arguments is Sue Sinclair's second poetry collection. In it, she continues her extraordinary phenomenological investigation of lived experience, addressing with increasing urgency issues of profound philosophical and political importance such as consumerism, privilege, and our ability to respond to the suffering of others.

Her voice combines great metaphorical brilliance with the depth one expects of a much older writer. Her poems will remind readers by turns of Rilke and Heine: urgent, sorrowing, ecstatic. This is an important book by one of Canada's finest young poets.

Cover art: Nature morte (detail) by Sophie Theriault, 2003

Sue Sinclair reads Prayer I from Mortal Arguments on Audioboo

Secrets of Weather and Hope. Mortal Arguments. By Sue Sinclair by Gilbert W. Purdy (Danforth Review, 2007)

A Philosophy of Criticism by Sue Sinclair

Sue Sinclair, Mortal Arguments - Review (The Malahat Review 148 Fall 2004)

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