Poetry
Where We Might Have Been
- Publisher
- Véhicule Press
- Published
- October 15, 2010
- Pages
- 88
- Price
- $18.00
- ISBN
- 9781550652949
- Language
- English
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Where We Might Have Been, Don Coles’ first book of new poetry in a decade, provides everything we’ve come to expect from the Governor General Award-winning poet: exact observations sharply etched with unimprovable lines, simple moments crackling with psychological complexity and a plain-speaking sophistication entirely his own. But there is also something different in these poems: a canny, energized, improvisatory fluency newly alive to Coles’ trademark stock-taking. Where We Might Have Been transforms family memories, old European haunts, and literary mementoes into tour de force reckonings of mortality. Rarely has Coles’ self-scrutiny been so exposed and exciting.
Reviews
“Don Coles makes poems which are attentive, tender, flexible, offhand but exact-intricate journeys, which are a joy to follow.” —Margaret Atwood
“Coles writes so elegantly and so convincingly that we would follow him anywhere.” –Literary Review of Canada
Description from the publisher Véhicule Press, seen in October 2026 · Source ↗
From Véhicule Press
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We Drove All Day for This Bruce Taylor
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Qaf’s People Sadiqa de Meijer
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My Summer Vacation Zeenat Nagree
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Cannibal Rats Richard Greene
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Morgan’s Castle Jan Hilliard
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How to Move On Joel Yanofsky
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Private Number David Homel
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Fan Mail Jason Guriel
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The Inferno Dante Alighieri
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Quietly, Loving Everyone Curtis John McRae
