Fail Safe
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of Calgary Press
Published:30th Nov '17
Should be back in stock very soon
Sense and sensuality. Body and embodiment. Fail Safe links human senses to the fecund world, examining plant and human bodies on the inside and the outside. Linguistically flourishing, sonically dense, this language is tactile. Dynamic and lush, these poems are inviting in their linguistic play.
Using an impressive range of styles and poetic approaches, Nikki Sheppy presents strong, energetic, intelligent work. Each poem stands alone, yet speaks to the poems around it. Each poem is felt and tasted with acute attention to language and the body. Fail Safe is a masterful debut and Nikki Sheppy a writer to watch.
The poems in Fail Safe engage with structures as well as the failures and traps of same, and the recognition that one shouldnât be distracted away from what is actually going on. [These] poems are incredibly muscular, dense and visceral, able to move with the speed of light. There is an element of the catch-all to Sheppyâs collection, deliberately constructing a book in which anything and everything might belong, fitting each piece up against the next both neatly and in a perfect jumble. - rob mclennan, poet
- Winner of AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show - Poetry and Literature 2018
- Winner of BPAA Robert Kroetsch Poetry Book of the Year 2018
- Winner of BPAA Robert Kroetsch Poetry Prize 2018
- Winner of PUbWest Design Award - Short Stores / Poetry / Anthology 2018
- Short-listed for BPAA Alberta Book Publishers Award - Poetry 2018
ISBN: 9781552389638
Dimensions: 199mm x 168mm x 9mm
Weight: 254g