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    Inter Alia
    Inter Alia
    Inter Alia
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    Inter Alia

    By David Seymour

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    Shortlisted for the 2006 Gerald Lampert Award

    Inter Alia is the long-awaited first collection by one of Canada’s most talented young poets. His work has been widely published in journals and was selected by Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane for Breathing Fire 2: Canada’s New Poets. He is heir to the English metaphysical poets in many of his preoccupations, with a good dash of Robert Bly, but his technique is very much influenced by his interests in Oriental forms – haiku, waka, haibun, etc. Seymour is smart, yes; but this is above all poetry of deep feeling. Its publication marks the appearance of a unique and important new voice in Canadian poetry.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrick Books
    Release dateSep 15, 2005
    ISBN9781926829487
    Inter Alia
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    David Seymour

    David Seymour is a former political editor of the Mirror Group, leader writer on the Daily Mail and council member of Britain in Europe.

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