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category: Poetry
published: Feb 2013
ISBN:9781927575086
publisher: Caitlin Press

This Isn't the Apocalypse We Hoped For

Poems

by Al Rempel

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How do we navigate a world of fast-food joints, big-box stores and traffic jams, where people grandstand in the deli and homeless men announce the end of the world through "slats in the sky"? Where the cumulative result of our lifestyle is a gyre of garbage and plastic in the North Pacific? Al Rempel's This Isn't the Apocalypse We Hoped For addresses this concern with humility and compassion, as it takes us above the trees in a sky canoe and into the city, asking us to receive each kindness and press it close, while we journey across this earth we've inherited "with the tilt and skew of athletes."

About the Author

Al Rempel’s books of poetry are Undiscovered Country, This Isn't the Apocalypse We Hoped For, and Understories, along with four chapbooks: Behind the Bladed Green, Deerness, Four Neat Holes, and The Picket Fence Diaries. His poems have also appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies, most recently, the Cascadia Field Guide and Sweetwater: Poems for the Watersheds. Rempel has collaborated in the creation of a number of video poems with other artists; We Have Become Children and I’ve In the Rain were screened at film festivals in North America, and Sky Canoe was screened in North America as well as internationally at festivals in Dublin and Bristol. Some of Rempel's poems have been translated into Italian and Spanish. Rempel was awarded the Prince George Regional Arts and Culture Award for poetry in 2012 and shortlisted for the Fred Cogswell award for excellence in Poetry in 2013. His poems have been included twice in the Poetry in Transit project in Vancouver and shortlisted in 2015 for Arc’s Poem of the Year. In conjunction with the Federation of British Columbia Writers, he has led a series of online poetry workshops under the banner of Interior Dialogues. More information can be found at his website: www.alrempel.com.

Contributor Notes

Al Rempel graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Science in Physics and a Bachelor of Education. In 2000 he attended the Victoria School of Writing where he began submitting poetry. Al Rempel has previously published two books of poetry, understories (Caitlin Press 2010), and The Picket Fence Diaries (Lipstick Press 2010). His poems have also appeared in The Malahat Review, CV2, Event, and filling Station, and in anthologies such as The Best Canadian Poetry in English, 2011. He currently lives in Prince George, BC, where he teaches at a high school.

Awards
  • Short-listed, Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry
Editorial Review

“Rempel is a master at setting up straw men and then knocking them down. These are oral performance tricks, played almost pitch perfect. Reading this book is like watching both the poems and Rempel onstage, playing the crowd.”

ARC Poetry Magazine

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