Description
Book SynopsisFor Your Safety Please Hold On is a truly remarkable first poetry collection from debut talent Kayla Czaga. Her poems are already making waves--several from this collection have received award attention, including:
The Fiddlehead''s 23rd annual Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize,
The Malahat Review''s 2012 Far Horizon''s Award for Poetry and an Editor''s Choice Award in
ARC Poetry Magazine''s 2012 Poem of the Year Contest. They have also been shortlisted for
The New Quarterly''s 2013 Occasional Verse Contest, longlisted for CBC''s 2013 Canada Writes Poetry Contest and have appeared in literary publications across North America.
The poems in
For Your Safety Please Hold On move in thematic focus from family, to girlhood, to adulthood, each permeated by Czaga''s lively voice and quick-witted, playful language. They test the line between honest humour and bitter reality in a sophisticated, incisive manner that tugs at the gut and feels true.
