{"product_id":"the-exiles-gallery-9781770899797","title":"The Exiles' Gallery","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eElise Partridge’s \u003cem\u003eThe Exiles’ Gallery\u003c\/em\u003e extends the range of her widely acclaimed earlier books, \u003cem\u003eFielder’s Choice\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eChameleon Hours\u003c\/em\u003e, praised as “first-rate” (James Pollock) for their “authenticity” (Stephanie Bolster) and “brilliant precisions that reflect life’s plenitude” (Rosanna Warren).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWidely praised for her engagement and her attention to craft, Elise Partridge’s \u003cem\u003eThe Exiles’ Gallery\u003c\/em\u003e confirms her standing as one of the most thoughtful, authentic voices in contemporary poetry. The poems in her third collection continue to explore what she has called “implicit questions about fullness of life or lives somehow thwarted, diminished, ended too early.” Through formal technique, painterly detail or her signature compressed directness, Partridge’s poems explore the past, present and future with compassion and grief, bearing witness to our not-so-still, all-too-brief lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbove all, \u003cem\u003eThe Exiles’ Gallery\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of celebration. In these restless, nimble, and complex poems of apprehension — whether by a candid glance backward at childhood or through tributes to friends — Partridge’s arresting images and diction give shape to the complexity and abundance of experience, made more luminous and gilt-edged by the corridor of encroaching shadows. Dispossessed but defiant, these are songs of preservation and love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst rate . . . a true Canadian heir of Elizabeth Bishop. * Poetryreviews.ca *\u003cbr\u003eThere is no cynicism or pretension here, only the authenticity that comes from careful study of both word and world. * Stephanie Bolster *\u003cbr\u003ePartridge is a technical wizard for whom thinking and feeling are not separate activities. She is a hawk-like observer of the particular . . . many times ascending to pitch-perfect verse. * Globe and Mail *","brand":"House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49535362728279,"sku":"9781770899797","price":14.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781770899797.jpg?v=1731897894","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-exiles-gallery-9781770899797","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}