You Were Here - Andre Narbonne
You Were Here is a collection of 65 poems written to create a virtual room in which a child grows to adulthood.
You Were Here is a collection of 65 poems written to create a virtual room in which a child grows to adulthood.
You Were Here is a collection of 65 poems written to create a virtual room in which a child grows to adulthood.
“André Narbonne deploys an austere precision of imagery that depicts in the sharpest possible focus his poems’ scenes, incidents and characters....A sense of home grounds and sustains the poet; in contrast, he is aware that “no stranger / can draw anything but a self-portrait.” And thanks to Narbonne’s amazing eye and command of his art we are shown the familiar in unexpected places in our world, like those birds the poet notices that roost in the letters of large advertising signs, that ‘nest in the alphabet of commerce.’”
André Narbonne is a Canadian writer, whose novel Lucien & Olivia (Black Moss Press) was longlisted for the 2022 Giller Prize. Originally a marine engineer, Narbonne settled in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in the mid-1980s, and studied English literature at Dalhousie University. He is a former chair of the Halifax chapter of the Canadian Poetry Association, and was the winner of the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick's David Adams Richards Award in 2008 for his short story collection "The Separatists". He later pursued his Ph.D. at the University of Western Ontario, and is currently a professor of English at the University of Windsor. His short story collection Twelve Miles to Midnight (Black Moss Press), was published in 2016, and was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award in 2017. In 2017, he published the poetry collection You Were Here (Flat Singles Press). Lucien & Olivia, his debut novel, was published by Black Moss Press in 2022.
Poetry
72 Pages
November 2017
