Poetry begins when the properties of things — and the correspondences among them — reveal themselves through language. Language is the veil that can pierce itself. The poems in The Properties record encounters between desire and the repressed or suppressed interstices of social, economic, political and unconscious forces. They’re alert to correspondences, attentive to the lines of force to which the poet’s family quietly assented in the contested place that is the Northwest Coast of North America.
Short-listed 2013 Ethel Wilson Poetry Prize
By Colin Browne
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.
news | 2013-03-14
The Properties Up For BC Book Prize!
…We are thrilled that Colin Browne’s The Properties is nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry …
news | 2013-02-08
Colin Browne Reads at the CAG!
…Colin Browne’s most recent book of poems, The Properties will be the prompt for readings and discussion …
news | 2012-11-14
Colin Browne at Emily Carr University
…will be reading from his new book of poetry The Properties at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in …
news | 2012-05-08
May is Talon Poetry Month!
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