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list price: $16.95
edition:Paperback
category: Poetry
published: Mar 2010
ISBN:9781894759410
publisher:
Caitlin Press
Description
Understories explores the meeting of the natural, suburban and inner-city experiences of Prince George. These poems look beneath the daily observations of a place jostled between stripmalls and pubs, the university and the mill, and a landscape that presses in at every corner, revealing a sometimes gritty underside. Al Rempel's poetry kicks the snow off alleyways, tramps around a fallen-in trapper's cabin, or sneaks onto the neighbour's front lawn - all with a wink and a nod.
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 after which time he began submitting poetry. He has since been published in The Malahat Review, Grain, and stonestone and anthologized in 4 Poets, Rocksalt, Half in the Sun, The Forestry Diversity Project and Down in the Valley. He has built a cabin, chopped his own firewood and grown a garden in the bush, but now prefers to write in coffee shops and watch his daughter grow up.
Awards
- Winner, Prince George Regional Arts and Culture Award for Poetry
