Robert Priest: Accidents After Happening, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Blurb

Accidents After Happening is for anyone who has a taste for immediate, meaningful poetry that sings, laments, and decries but also celebrates life in our modern world.

"One of the most imaginatively inventive poets in the country." --- Pacific Rim Review of Books

The accidents of Priest's collection are definitely not all "happy." They move through a full range of human emotions: dread, grief, anger, ecstasy, lust and empathy. Plus some magic levity. This is poetry you will want to recite aloud: lyrical love poems, sonnets, satires, ghazals, curses, and bitter invective. These are not snobby poems --- they want and welcome readers who love euphony, who enjoy tasteful eroticism, who rage at injustice. People who grieve and gush --- smart people who think critically and form their own opinions. And for those with a taste for "brevity forever." Accidents After Happening also contains a whole new catalog of Priest's aphorisms, proverbs, maxims, and sayings --- the kind of work that recently prompted Canadian literary icon Margaret Atwood to take to Twitter and praise Priest's "snappy funny spot-on micro poems --- plus much more."

Celebrated as "the people's poet," Priest's words have been debated in the Ontario legislature, posted in the Transit system, quoted in the Farmer's Almanac , embedded in cement, sung on Sesame Street, and turned into two hit songs: "Song Instead of a Kiss," a number one hit for Alannah Myles, and the recent top ten hit by Indigenous balladeer Julian Taylor "Seeds (They Tried to Bury Us)."