Entrainment: Poems

By Ewan Whyte

This collection of poetry explores interrelatedness, the intellectual and the ubiquitous with lyrical vision. There are wonderful moments in every poem, expressions of morphogenesis, as explored through the visions of homeless people as visiting preachers, the person as uncomfortable traveller, the various voices that speak to us through history and myth, hallucinating street people singing to vegetables, a plane crash at an air show, and a recounting of the end of the medieval Cathar and Albigensian crusades. These are just a few of the topics the author encounters with remarkable wit and ingenuity.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Exile Editions
• Release date: Mar 25, 2016
• ISBN: 9781550964738

Ewan Whyte

Ewan Whyte is a writer and translator. He has written for the Globe & Mail and The Literary Review of Canada. He is the author of Entrainment, a book of poetry, and a translation, Catullus: Lyric, Rude and Erotic. He makes his home in Toronto.

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ENTRAINMENT

EWAN WHYTE

POEMS

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Whyte, Ewan, author

Entrainment : poems / Ewan Whyte.

Issued in print and electronic formats.

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For my son Marcus

On a Yuan Temple Wal Painting in the Met

Fioretti (of St. Francis)

Catullus Poem 2

Bike Accident Poem

On a Night Bus

Bag Woman