The brilliant new collection from Michael Crummey, bestselling author of Galore.

Michael Crummey's first collection in a decade has something for everyone: Love and marriage and airport grief; how not to get laid in a Newfoundland mining town; total immersion baptism; the grand machinery of decay; migrant music and invisible crowns and mortifying engagements with babysitters; the transcendent properties of home brew. Whether charting the merciless complications of childhood, or the unpredictable consolations of middle age, these are poems of magic and ruin. Under the Keel affirms Crummey's place as one of our necessary writers.

About the Author
MICHAEL CRUMMEY is the author of twelve books of poetry and fiction. He was the inaugural winner of the $50,000 Writers' Trust Fellowship in recognition of "exceptional creative ability and outstanding promise" in his work to date. His most recent novel, The Innocents, won the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General's Literary Award, and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Little Dogs: New and Selected Poems appeared in 2017. He lives in St. John's, where he is starting to feel his age.

Reviews
These poems are striking not only for Crummey's skilful use of language and imagery, but for his ability to capture small moments that will be immediately recognizable to most readers. Tender but also at times chilling... the faces [Under the Keel] conjures are hauntingly engaging, and the sentiments it conveys echo long after the end has been reached. -- Liz Worth * Quill and Quire *
[Crummey's poems] are the fairy tales of real life. -- Whitney Moran * Atlantic Books Today *
[Crummey] has a remarkable ear and a useful memory of times past that are still redolent in this changing present. -- Peter Robb * Ottawa Citizen *



Book Information
ISBN 9781770892699
Author Michael Crummey
Format Paperback
Page Count 96
Imprint House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
Publisher House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
Weight(grams) 198g
Dimensions(mm) 215mm * 139mm * 10mm