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Unquiet Bones

October 1, 2015 | ISBN 978-1-928088-07-3 | 70 Pages

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October 2015 70 pages | ISBN 978-1-928088-07-3 **Shortlisted for the 2016 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize** Peter Midgley does not shy away from politics, whether documenting efforts to uproot colonialism or the number of murdered Aboriginal women in Canada. In these dramatic and uncompromising poems, Midgley roves between Canada and Africa, stopping briefly to consider struggles for democracy in places as diverse as Hong Kong and Ancient Rome.  With lines that look for justice and record our search for human dignity, Midgley shows us “bodies silent as crocodiles on the kavango” and how “freedom is a lovely word,… Read more
  • **Shortlisted for the 2016 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize**

  • Poets Resist: Peter Midgley (All Lit Up, 04/07/2017)
    "As a poet, I am in the middle of things, looking outward in all directions. Looking in from all angles. I write about and from within, looking in and out. I do not write against or in opposition. Poetry tears apart and poetry rebuilds. It questions and interrogates. If that is “resistance,” then that is what it means to me."

  • Introverted and Extroverted Selves (Shane Neilson, Canadian Literature 232, Spring 2017)
    "Peter Midgley is an emotional extrovert, a poet whose speaker is more interested in witnessing the drama outside the self."

  • Peter Midgley is a poet and storyteller. He has performed in several countries around the world and has published three children’s books, one of which, Thuli’s Mattress, won the International Board on Books for Young People Award for Literacy Promotion and has been translated into twenty-seven languages. He is also the author of two plays and a bilingual volume of poems, perhaps i should / miskien moet ek, which appeared with Kalamalka Press in 2010. A second collection of poetry, Unquiet Bones, will be published by Wolsak & Wynn in 2015.