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    Reckon
    Reckon
    Reckon
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    Reckon

    By Steve McOrmond

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    Anxious, twitchy, urgent poems—a collection that’s at once sardonic and “chronically wishful.”
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrick Books
    Release dateApr 1, 2018
    ISBN9781771314831
    Reckon
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    Steve McOrmond

    Steve McOrmond is the author of three previous collections of poetry, most recently The Good News about Armageddon (Brick Books 2010), which appeared on a number of book critics’ Best of 2010 lists and was shortlisted for the 2011 ReLit Award. His second collection, Primer on the Hereafter (Wolsak and Wynn 2006), was awarded the Atlantic Poetry Prize. His debut collection, Lean Days (Wolsak and Wynn 2004), was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award. Originally from Prince Edward Island, he lives in Toronto.

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