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The Garbage Poems

The Garbage Poems - Paperback

by Anna Swanson
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Availability:In StockContributor:Anna Swanson, April White (Illustrator)Publish date:9/29/2025Pages:144
Language:EnglishPublisher:Brick BooksISBN-13:9781771316613ISBN-10:1771316616UPC:9781771316613Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Canadian, LGBTQ+, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Political & ProtestSize:8.51 x 5.90 x 0.36 inchesWeight:0.4696Product ID:SC40HZH7G9

The Garbage Poems

Featured on CBC Newfoundland Morning with Leigh Anne Power

Poems that repurpose the language of beer cans and fast-food wrappers to explore everything from chronic illness to climate crisis to the joy of wild swimming.

Created entirely out of words found on trash collected at local swimming holes, Anna Swanson's garbage poems reclaim hyperbolic corporate marketing-speak for the expression of...

Language:EnglishPublisher:Brick BooksISBN-13:9781771316613ISBN-10:1771316616UPC:9781771316613Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Canadian, LGBTQ+, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Political & ProtestSize:8.51 x 5.90 x 0.36 inchesWeight:0.4696Product ID:SC40HZH7G9

Anna Swanson (she/her) is a queer writer and librarian. Her first book of poetry, The Nights Also (Tightrope Books, 2010), won the Gerald Lampert Award and a Lambda Literary Award. Her writing has been widely published in journals and appears in anthologies including Best Canadian Poetry, Impact: Women Writing After Concussion, In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry, Watch Your Head:...

Publisher: Brick Books

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Anna Swanson, April White (Illustrator)

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Anna Swanson

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