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A Ruckus of Awkward Stacking
2000
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A Ruckus of Awkward Stacking is about memory memory as a poetic form through which refractions of loss, recovery, discovery and identity form an imaginative reshaping of the past. In raw brushstrokes, Robinson records the slow cascade of events and characters slipping through the thin membrane of experience, shaping our histories. At the same time, he experiments with style and form in a wonderfully sinuous writing. With this, his first book, Robinson makes a staggering debut on the North American literary stage.
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Author

Matt Robinson
Matt Robinson
Author · 2 books

MATT ROBINSON lives in Halifax, NS with his family. Publications include Tangled & Cleft (Gaspereau Press, 2021), Against (Gaspereau Press, 2018), The Telephone Game (Baseline Press, 2017), Some Nights It's Entertainment; Some Other Nights Just Work (Gaspereau, 2016), a fist made and then un-made (Gaspereau, 2013), which was short-listed for the bpNichol Chapbook Award, as well as the full-length collections Against the Hard Angle (ECW, 2010), no cage contains a stare that well (ECW, 2005), how we play at it: a list (ECW, 2002), and A Ruckus of Awkward Stacking (Insomniac, 2000), which was short-listed for both the Gerald Lampert Award and the ReLit Award for Poetry. Robinson has won the Grain Prose Poetry Prize, the Petra Kenney Award, and The Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, among others. His poems have appeared in a number of anthologies, including The New Canon, Breathing Fire 2, Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada, Exact Fare Only 2, Mess: The Hospital Anthology, and Landmarks: An Anthology of New Atlantic Canadian Poetry of the Land. His poem ‘The Grain Elevators’ has been adapted into a short film produced and directed by Megan Wennberg and screened at both the Halifax Independent Filmmakers’ Festival and the Atlantic Film Festival. He works as the Director – Housing & Conference Services at Saint Mary’s University.

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