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Going Top Shelf: An Anthology of Canadian Hockey Poetry
Going Top Shelf brings together for the first time in one collection some of Canada's best hockey poems and song lyrics. Included are works by such outstanding Canadian poets as Michael Ondaatje, Al Purdy, Margaret Avison, Don Gutteridge and Lorna Crozier. And for music lovers with a taste for contemporary Canadian music, this entertaining collection includes lyrics by The Tragically Hip, The Rheostatics, Kathleen Edwards, Stompin' Tom Connors, and others.
Going Top Shelf represents a cross-section of Canada 's poets and composers, ranging from 19th-century romantic poet Sir Charles G.C. Roberts to contemporary pop songstress Jane Siberry. Altogether, more than 30 authors and songwriters from across Canada reflect an intriguing diversity of forms and literary expression. Yet in all the poems, ice—or the sport played to extensively in Canada upon it—is used to express the ideas, beliefs and attitudes of this diverse group of Canadian authors.
For the poetry scholar, for the lover of good music, for the hockey fan, this is a collection to be enjoyed. Indeed, Going Top Shelf represents a literary "top shelf" of hockey poetry without equal.
Going Top Shelf represents a cross-section of Canada 's poets and composers, ranging from 19th-century romantic poet Sir Charles G.C. Roberts to contemporary pop songstress Jane Siberry. Altogether, more than 30 authors and songwriters from across Canada reflect an intriguing diversity of forms and literary expression. Yet in all the poems, ice—or the sport played to extensively in Canada upon it—is used to express the ideas, beliefs and attitudes of this diverse group of Canadian authors.
For the poetry scholar, for the lover of good music, for the hockey fan, this is a collection to be enjoyed. Indeed, Going Top Shelf represents a literary "top shelf" of hockey poetry without equal.
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First published May 1, 2005
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November 2, 2017
my interests- mortality and degeneration, the role of women in hockey, a.e. housman- were all included in this collection and i appreciated it.
SOME EXCERPTS OF SOME POEMS THAT MADE ME FEEL SOME WAY:
your goalie / in his frightening mask / dreams perhaps / of gentleness
Whether November moves in the bones of a tree / or April is coral coloured with crocus / sea-shelled in a tiny garden / death comes when death comes
The scars tell the story. ... You can feel it with your fingers. Run your fingers through my hair.
SOME EXCERPTS OF SOME POEMS THAT MADE ME FEEL SOME WAY:
your goalie / in his frightening mask / dreams perhaps / of gentleness
Whether November moves in the bones of a tree / or April is coral coloured with crocus / sea-shelled in a tiny garden / death comes when death comes
The scars tell the story. ... You can feel it with your fingers. Run your fingers through my hair.
July 5, 2018
An anthology of Canadian hockey poetry and songs, and it doesn't include Tom Cochrane's "Big League"? Makes me wonder what else is missing from such an anthology...
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