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Winners Announced! The Claremont Review, launched in March 1992, is run by unpaid volunteers who act as co-editors. It has been acclaimed across North America for nurturing young writers and poets, and even counts playwright Neil Simon among its subscribers. The magazine was named after a local high school in Victoria, BC that helped launch the title and where several editors teach. Thank you for supporting the Claremont Review's staff of dedicated volunteers and promoting literacy and writing in North America. For more information and to subscribe to the Claremont Review, visit their website at www.theclaremontreview.ca. The Claremont Review supports excellence in literature; here are some of their favorite works. |
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Poetry
Over the past decade, Billy Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. Annie Proulx admits, "I have never before felt possessive about a poet, but I am fiercely glad that Billy Collins is ours." John Updike proclaims his poems "consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides."
The Wild Iris was written during a ten-week period in the summer of 1991. Louise Cluck's first four collections consistently returned to the natural world, to the classical and biblical narratives that arose to explain the phenomena of this world, to provide meaning and to console.
Stephen Dunn, in his startling and graceful eleventh collection, often set in southern New Jersey where he makes his home, continues to find his subjects in the dailiness of life, at the same time expanding his vision to a darker emotional landscape. The mysteries of Eros and Thanatos, the stubborn endurance of mind and body in the face of diminishment -- these are the under-currents of Dunn's new work.
"This is the work of the hammer: to break us open," writes John MacKenzie in this eloquent debut. His poems draw upon his Maritime roots-the earthy talk and wry humor; the daily grind of physical labor; the tug of family ties. Whether he's writing about harvesting canola in Manitoba, walking a steel girder high above Toronto, or birthing calves on PEI, his poems are equal parts rage, exact observation, wit and hard-earned love.
Mean is a stunning exploration of the threshold and divide between our primeval origins and the meanness of our everyday lives. In this collection, the pastoral collides with the concrete terrain of motorbikes, prisons, and chainlink to capture our constructed isolation and our buried, yet resonant, connection to the land and seascapes that surround us. Ken Babstock's poetic voice is wholly original-searing and pure in its realism, evocative and affecting in its search for a place to call its own.
Karen Solie takes risks with perception and language. There's a remarkably dark sense of humour at work here, tempered with a haunting vulnerability. According to the Griffin Poetry Prize judges this book "stood out for its mix of physical impressions, perceptual strength, and--especially--mental grace. ... Often in her pages, we encounter wisdom of a severity that we would almost rather not know. |
Fiction
In these ten stories, Ford mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West--and from the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live there. Rock Springs is a masterpiece of taut narration, cleanly chiseled prose, and empathy so generous that it feels like a kind of grace.
Birds of America is a stunning collection of twelve stories by Lorrie Moore, one of our finest authors at work today. With her characteristic wit and piercing intelligence she unfolds a series of portraits of the lost and unsettled of America, and with a trademark humor that fuels each story with pathos and understanding.
In Alice Munro's superb new collection, we find stories about women of all ages and circumstances, their lives made palpable by the subtlety and empathy of this incomparable writer. All Editions: $14.88 - $249.90
Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In A Temporary Matter, published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a stillborn birth while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout. In the title story, an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors and hears an astonishing confession.
From the author of the bestselling novel, Stanley Park, a dazzling collection of short fiction to debut in our new Vintage Tales series. Taylor, whose writing possesses an astonishing range and depth, first came to national attention with his short story writing. This collection includes, among others, his Journey Prize-winning story, Doves of Townsend, for which he also won a Silver National Magazine Award, and two other stories from the fall 2000 Journey Prize Anthology.
Annabel Lyon is one of the country’s most electrifying new literary voices. Written in tough, crystalline prose, these stories explore our need by turns to connect with the people around us, to pull back, to reach out again.
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