With Here, award-winning poet Colin Browne offers a book of luminous encounters, contradictions, collisions, and meditations on art, nature, justice, historical memory, and territorial occupation. Browne’s texts mine the harrowing destinies and densities of place – in this case, of the North American Northwest Coast. The work’s seven movements are tuned to the autobiographical, alert to rhythm and improvisation, and immersed in an ambience of memory and tenderness.
Here is also a book of voices, infused with the eros of intertextuality: Apollinaire, whose spirit presides over these pages, along with Antonin Artaud, André Breton, Robert Burton, Louis Clexlixqen, Henry Edenshaw, Frantz Fanon, Sa7plek (Chief Joe Capilano), Gwendolyn MacEwen, Charles Olson, Pablo Picasso, Dorothy Jean Ray, Raymond Roussel, Gertrude Stein, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman. Included are Browne’s translations of early modernist poems by Apollinaire and Cendrars citing Vancouver, which in the early decades of the twentieth century captured the imagination of Parisian artists and poets.
“A stunning and serious collection."
—rob mclennan
Colin Browne’s most recent book of poetry, Here, was published by Talonbooks in September 2020. His extended essay, Entering Time: The Fungus Man Platters of Charles Edenshaw (Talonbooks, 2016), is a poetic exploration of three argillite platters made by Haida artist Da.a xiigang (Charles Edenshaw) between 1885 and 1895.
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…at the famous Institut de Peinture in Brussels. There she meets two friends, both enigmatic, …
…Editor for a four-day-a-week position. (There may be an opportunity to expand this role to five …
…the Heart of Thinking Colin Browne reading from Here Junie Desil reading from eat salt | gaze at the …
…places we least expect it, of building bridges where healing seems impossible, and saving others as a …
…[originally] published in 1981 in the book titled Here & There. It seems to have been written during … friends and others in the Kootenays in July 1980. Here & There is dedicated to “my fellow swimmers.” …
…Don’t Remember. Forthcoming in Spring 2021 is Anywhere But Here, which the the Georgia Straight called …
…rural. In growing suburbs across the country, there is a push to urbanize, to rethink this sprawling … is foreshadowed all over contemporary suburbs, where vacant, single-family lots herald anticipation of …
…the terrible days of the wisecrack,” she wrote. “There didn’t have to be any truth.” There still doesn’t …
…specific street and on a particular tree growing there, Earle Street takes the concept of street and … organic, as though building from inside a seed.” Here is the macrocosm reflected, examined, and …
…awards! Check out the longlist of nominees here! …