Existing Music Madeline Sonik institutional hierarchies

institutional hierarchies

Munce achieves what creative writing students are always nagged to do: show and not tell

Reading God of Missed Connections means to follow a curious line of questioning

Frogs in the Rain Barrel was runner-up for the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award in 1996

Existing Music Madeline Sonik institutional hierarchiesDescription Trillium Book Award winner Nick Thran explores the companionship of wistful music in his fourth collection. The poems in Existing Music both celebrate and interrogate the idea of the sad song. The lyrical narrative mixes autobiographical poems with fantasies about the speakers favourite musiciansfrom the long gaps between one artists records, and grief over anothers suicide, to the marvelling at anothers ability to write beautiful songs