Ox Lost, Snow Deep
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Anvil Press Publishers Inc
Published:30th Oct '24
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“I’m just going to break this, okay?” writes Nova Scotia poet Alice Burdick in her sixth full-length poetry collection. The 14 long poems in Ox Lost, Snow Deep range from confessional narrative to collage to surrealism, exploring representations of history, both public and personal, and within that, they probe what is considered important and what is considered not important. These poems include takes on semi-rural existence, raising a family, and living in poverty. They also veer toward popular culture: using movies, music, social media language as jumping-off points or simply by taking those media’s forms. Burdick confronts the very embarrassment of simply being alive: excruciation, apology, loss, humour, mistakes, and grief—and the freedom achieved by acknowledging these things.
Burdick’s first collection of new poems since 2018, Ox Lost, Snow Deep will alter your ways of thinking and reading.
Shortlisted for the 2025 Maxine Tynes Nova Scotia Poetry Award
Longlisted for the 2025 Raymond Souster Award (League of Canadian Poets)
“… exquisitely minimal, compact, a string of gleaming jewels. … Not a word is wasted here. That’s skill. … These are such wise, funny and strange poems, it’s hard not linger on a line or a bit of word play or a startling image. I devoured the book on first read and then returned to some of my favourite bits. The reinvented aphorisms are so wise, we should know them already. These should be commandments on stone tablets and acerbic telegrams.” (The temz Review)
“Her latest collection of poems taps into the strange beauty of the unexpected, the uncanny, the disregarded and the unconventional. Burdick also dances with absurdism, not-so-gently mocking our earnest search for meaning and using dark humour to comment on the human condition (as well as the non-humane conditions that humans have wrought). …” (Miramichi Reader)
ISBN: 9781772142419
Dimensions: 191mm x 127mm x 7mm
Weight: 120g
96 pages