About The Elements

The Elements is a thinker’s biography in poetry, and a polylingual homage about family. Poems about and for Moure’s late father — accepting his dementia as a real way of thinking “world” and “self” in a struggle against invasive powers — are braced alongside poems invoking the struggle of Galician peasants against the invasion of Napoleon’s armies. It is a book about tenderness, and about The Good, in the face of destruction. By celebrating our ability to think and to revolt, it defends the human pull toward happiness and sovereignty, toward life, and toward living. “The infinitely transmissible,” it says, “demands this polyvalent body.”

“Her work sparks with passion, inventiveness, and more conceptual leaps than quantum physics.” — Books in Canada

About Erín Moure

One of Canada’s most eminent and respected poets, Erín Moure is a translator from French, Spanish, Galician, and Portuguese, and the author of seventeen books of poetry. Moure has received the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the A.M. Klein Prize, and she has been a three-time finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Most recently, she has been a finalist for the 2018 Kobzar Literary Award. She lives in Montreal.

About Twitch Force

A muscle’s “twitch force” is a measurement of its energy potential. It’s history dependent: you can forget it, but it’s engraved on you where you can’t see it, and all it wants to do is repeat. Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Michael Redhill’s first collection of poetry in 18 years, Twitch Force has a gnomic, satirical, and lucid intelligence.

"Redhill packs a hell of a punch. As someone once remarked of Sonny Liston: ‘He hurts when he breathes on you.’” — Guardian

This is poetry concerned with love and its loss, despair and hard-won hope, knowledge and essential mystery, aging and timelessness. Readers are cautioned: ideas that present as self-explanatory may be closer than they appear. Twitch Force is a stunningly realized return to the form from one of Canada’s bravest and most original poets.

About Michael Redhill

Michael Redhill is the author of five collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Light-crossing (2001, House of Anansi Press), and seven novels, some of which were written under the pseudonym Inger Ash Wolfe. His 2006 novel, Consolation, reimagined Toronto’s mid-nineteenth century and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His most recent novel, Bellevue Square, won the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize. He edited and published Brick: A Literary Journal from 1998 to 2007, and continues to teach as well as edit. He lives in Toronto.