Meira Cook

Monologue Dogs Meira Cook

Marc Notes: Poems.; Electronic monograph.; Issued also in print format. Publisher Marketing: Dazzling collection of masques from Manitoba Book of the Year- and Walrus Poetry Prize-winning author."Monologue Dogs" is a series of contemporary dramatic monologues. Every "voice" has its own imagined rhythm and nuances of poetic speech that are as vibrant, wayward, mournful, errant, or unruly as the characters who speak. Setting the lyric against street argot, archaic language against deflating or ironic feints, metaphors against declarative sentences, the elegiac against the ribald, classical or literary allusions against anachronistic references, these monologues reflect our own disordered subjectivities. In the words of Molly Peacock: "Read her for a fresh, contemporary and knowing sensibility--not to mention an unforgettable sense of humour.""Suddenly the car drops down on all fours and will go no further. Arrival is neither here nor there, mother says, searching for her key. But her key is in the last lost pocket of the world's overcoat and tonight -- tonight the forest is ajar."--from "The Hunger Artists"Praise for "Monologue Dogs" "Again Meira Cook proves herself to be one of Canada's most compelling poets." --Molly Peacock."These are poems to read and reread with growing pleasure and admiration."--Steven Heighton Contributor Bio:  Cook, Meira MEIRA COOK s first novel, The House on Sugarbush Road, won the 2013 McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year Award and was a nominee for the Winnipeg Public Library s On The Same Page competition. Her poetry won first place in the CBC Literary Awards in 2007, garnered a Manitoba Publishing Award (a Maggie ), and has been featured in Winnipeg Transit s Poetry in Motion program. Two of her poems were on the longlist for the 2013 CBC Writes contest. She won the inaugural Walrus Poetry Prize in 2012, and one of her poems was on the shortlist for the 2013 Walrus Poetry Prize. Meira was also the 2013 writer-in-residence for the Winnipeg Public Library.