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Ned Pratt - Ray Cronin - Bog - Goose Lane Editions - Plusbog.dk

The world in bold; Newfoundland in abstract. "It is the landscape that endures, it is the landscape that remains in control." — Ned Pratt With Ned Pratt, there is no nostalgia, no romance, no theatre. His interest in the Newfoundland landscape forms the foundation for his photography. Pratt's approach to the act of looking transcends place. He distills the landscape into abstractions of form and colour. Disrupting depth with close architectural details and incisions of poles and wires, he undermines the traditional, romantic notion of “looking out” to sublime geometry. Ned Pratt: One Wave charts a decade of Pratt's breathtaking photography. Echoing Pratt's aesthetic, this beautifully designed book presents Pratt's works in formal conversation with each other. Stark imagery of buildings is juxtaposed with forays into abstraction and celebrations of the inherent geometry of natural forms — whether a single wave crashing over a wall or stones cracked by freezing and thawing.

DKK 337.00

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Under Budapest - Ailsa Kay - Bog - Goose Lane Editions - Plusbog.dk

Ailsa Kay lays out the literary equivalent of a jigsaw puzzle in Under Budapest, bringing into stark relief the triumphs, calamities, and desperation of two North American Hungarian families and those whose lives they''ve touched. There''s Agnes and Tibor, mother and son, travelling to Hungary for reasons they keep to themselves, he to recover from a disastrous love affair, she to search for a sister gone missing during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. There''s Janos, a self-styled player and petty thug, who schemes to make it rich in post-communist Hungary. And there''s Gyula and Zsofi, caught up in a revolution that will change the face of Hungary forever. Their lives are all connected by a conflagration of events: The legacy of wartime violence, past allegiances, long-buried rivalries, and secrets from the past. Through riveting narratives that spring back and forth through time, Under Budapest captures the drama and ravages of the Hungarian Revolution and the eras that followed. A dark ode to memory, Kay''s intimate spectacle demonstrates that actions have consequences, that the past cannot be shaken, that all events can carry the possibility of repercussion.

DKK 175.00

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Hymnswitch - Ali Blythe - Bog - Goose Lane Editions - Plusbog.dk

Shortlisted, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize Standing in the granite of his own voice.Remembering your gathering body. Hello, My Forever Ago, don't worry,you won't be reading this much longer.You will have already returnedin a snowcloud, which is suggestively,fashionably, only ever one second old. Yes, Darling, it's me , it saysas proof that in spacethough there are many silences, fleeting isn't the oppositeof infinite , but its perfect match. Four years ago, Ali Blythe arrived with Twoism , a remarkable debut collection, every line shimmering with life and shivering with erotically charged glimpses of completeness. Now in Hymnswitch , Blythe takes up the themes of identity and the body once again, this time casting an eye backwards and forwards, visiting places of recovery and wrestling with the transition into one's own skin. Readers will find themselves holding their breath at the risk and beauty and difficulty of the balance Blythe strikes in the midst of ineffable complexity. Combining a stark, tensile precision with musicality that lulls and surprises, Blythe, a surreal engineer of language, has once again created an unusually memorable collection. Imbued with emotional awareness, these stunning poems will imprint readers with startling images and silences as potent as words.

DKK 175.00

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i heard a crow before i was born - Jules Delorme - Bog - Goose Lane Editions - Plusbog.dk

i heard a crow before i was born. i heard tsó:ka’we before i was born. i heard a crow before i was born opens with a dream-memory that transforms into a stark, poetic reflection on the generational trauma faced by many Indigenous families. Jules Delorme was born to resentful and abusive parents, in a world in which he never felt he belonged. Yet, buoyed by the love shown to him by his tóta (grandmother) and his many animal protectors, Delorme gained the strength to reckon with his brutal childhood and create this transformative and evocative memoir. Across chapters that tell of his troubled relationships, Delorme unwraps the pain at the centre of his own story: the residential schools and the aftershocks that continue to reverberate. In this stunning testament to the power of storytelling — to help us grieve and help us survive — Delorme tells the story of his spirit walk as he embraces the contradictions of his identity. As he writes, “i heard a crow before i was born is a man looking back, and dreaming back, and seeing that life, in whatever form it takes, however harsh it might seem, is beautiful.”

DKK 187.00

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Roadsworth - Bethany Gibson - Bog - Goose Lane Editions - Plusbog.dk

Winner, Design Edge Regional Design Award In October 2001, paint was spilled on the streets of Montreal. A stark, primitive bike symbol, looking suspiciously like the one the city used to designate a bike path; a giant zipper, pulled open down the centre line of the street on a busy commuter route; the footprint of a giant, stomping through the city while people slept. Inspired by a desire for adventure and galvanized by a loathing of car culture, Roadsworth got down with an idea that had been incubating. The time had come for him to articulate his artistic vision, to challenge the notion of "public" space and whose right it is to use it. By 2004, Roadsworth had pulled off close to 300 pieces of urban art on the streets of Montreal. In the fall, he was charged with 51 counts of public mischief. It seemed to signal the end of his career. Instead the citizens of Montreal and lovers of his work from around the world rallied their support. A year later he was let off with a slap on the wrist. Since then, Roadsworth has developed as an artist, continuing to intervene in public spaces and to travel the world, executing commissioned work for organizations such as Cirque de Soleil, The Lost O (cycled over in le tour de France), and for municipalities, exhibitions, and arts festivals. In this playful and sometimes subversive book, featuring more than 200 reproductions of his unmistakable work, Roadsworth takes the urban landscape and turns its constituent elements on their heads, both indicting our culture's excesses and celebrating what makes us human (lest we forget).

DKK 236.00

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St. George - Susan Lapides - Bog - Goose Lane Editions - Plusbog.dk

New Brunswick’s Fundy Coast has always been a place of movement. The massive tides are so integral to the region’s identity that their ebb and flow defines the character of the place. St. George has seen more than its fair share of the ebb and flow of people and prospects — the typical story of incoming trade and riches, followed by dwindling opportunities. But interest has recently returned to St. George, drawn there by an appreciation for non-urban locales of stark natural beauty, affordability, and down-to-earth people. Photographer Susan Lapides has been visiting St. George for over twenty-five years. Her deep commitment to capturing the character of place is brilliantly matched by her innate sense of composition and colour. Her work testifies to the fact that the everyday can be mesmerizing if we are lucky enough to have the right interpreter behind the lens. In Lapides’s photographs, the dusk cobalt blues of the ocean and sky become symphonic and a windswept cliff with a lighthouse, dog, lacrosse player, and tree appear as powerful and enigmatic as an Edward Hopper painting. La côte de Fundy a toujours été un lieu de mouvements. Les marées d’une amplitude hors du commun ont marqué l’identité de cette région du Nouveau-Brunswick, dont le caractère s’est forgé au gré des vagues. Il y en a eu, des vagues, à St. George! De gens, de perspectives et de fortunes. L’histoire typique d’un essor commercial et de richesses qui abondent, puis déclinent. Et voilà que St. George suscite un regain d’intérêt notable, alimenté par la beauté brute des environs de la ville, des prix abordables et le charme des gens sans prétention. Susan Lapides fréquente St. George depuis plus de vingt-cinq ans, appareil photo à l’œil. Sa détermination à saisir la personnalité du lieu n’a d’égal que son sens inné de la composition et de la couleur. Ses clichés prouvent que le quotidien peut être fascinant, pour peu que l’interprète derrière la lentille en soit parfaitement conscient. Le bleu cobalt de l’océan et du ciel au crépuscule a une nette tonalité symphonique. Le phare, le chien, le joueur de crosse et l’arbre qui animent une falaise balayée par le vent évoquent autant de présence et de mystère qu’un tableau d’Edward Hopper.

DKK 232.00

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