The Vicinity
| By: | David O'Meara |
| Publisher: | ACP - Brick Books |
| Print ISBN: | 9781894078306 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781894078993 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2003 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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Winner of the 2004 Archibald Lampman Award (National Capital Region -- Ottawa) and shortlisted for the 2004 Trillium Book Award for Poetry and the 2004 ReLit AwardsIn The Vicinity David O'Meara gives us a new kind of cityscape, one that brings its unseen, and usually unsung, materials to the foreground. Brick, concrete (that "not-so-silver screen / our walk-on parts are posed upon"), glass, steel, wire: they step boldly from anonymity into fresh focus, backdrops goaded into stardom. Full of casually-worn wit and humour, often using intricate forms that deftly reflect their subjects, these poems probe our conventional attitudes while walking us down present or remembered streets -- "Some-such Avenue / Rue Saint Whatever."