Jernigan and Jones celebrate the vitality and diversity of poetry inspired by, or in conversation with, myth. Looking back to the early 20th century and forward to the contemporary, Earth and Heaven g
Jernigan and Jones celebrate the vitality and diversity of poetry inspired by, or in conversation with, myth. Looking back to the early 20th century and forward to the contemporary,
Earth and Heaven gathers voices and stories as it moves through "four ages" of mythic history. This collection tells a story of its own about the stories we tell each other.
Featuring poems by:
- Harry Thurston,
- Daniel David Moses,
- Douglas LePan,
- Gwendolyn MacEwen,
- Margaret Avison,
- Souvankham Thammavongsa,
- George Johnston,
- John Terpstra,
- Beverley Bie Brahic,
- Anne Compton,
- Robert Bringhurst,
- Darren Bifford,
- Leonard Cohen,
- Alfred Bailey,
- Diana Brebner,
- Mary Dalton,
- Steven Heighton,
- Sue Sinclair,
- Robert Gibbs,
- Bruce Taylor,
- Peter Sanger,
- Mark Callanan,
- Elise Partridge,
- Daryl Hine,
- Don McKay,
- Jeffery Donaldson,
- Marius Kociejowski,
- Ricardo Sternberg,
- Michael Crummey,
- Richard Greene,
- Carmine Starnino,
- Wayne Clifford,
- Brian Bartlett,
- James Reaney,
- Norm Sibum,
- M. Travis Lane,
- P.K. Page,
- E.J. Pratt,
- W.W.E. Ross,
- Kerry-Lee Powell,
- Warren Heiti,
- Anne Wilkinson,
- Robyn Sarah,
- A.F. Moritz,
- Eric Ormsby,
- John Thompson,
- James Pollock,
- Richard Outram, and
- Jay Macpherson.
Amanda Jernigan is the author of two books of poems,
Groundwork (Biblioasis, 2011) and
All the Daylight Hours (Cormorant, 2013), and of the prose work
Living in the Orchard: The Poetry of Peter Sanger (Frog Hollow, 2014). She edited
The Essential Richard Outram (Porcupine?s Quill, 2011), and is currently at work on a critical edition of Outram's poems. She lives in Hamilton, Ontario, with her family.
Evan Jones
is the author of Nothing Fell Today But Rain (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2003), a finalist for the Governor-General's Literary Award for Poetry, and Paralogues (Carcanet, 2012). He co-edited the anthology Modern Canadian Poets (Carcanet 2010). He lives in Manchester, UK, with his family.
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