April 2011
88 pages | ISBN 978-1-894987-52-3
$17.00
Local News walks us through the familiar spaces in our homes and lives and shows them to us in a new, if slanted, light. Whether meandering the aisles of the neighbourhood drugstore or digging through the tool shed out back, Downie shows a vivid and alive world that is not soon to be forgotten.
Reviews
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Inspiration is (literally) everywhere (Quentin Mills-Fenn, Uptown Magazine 10/20/2011). "The new book contains poems about the most ordinary places and things, with titles such as 'Clothes Closet,' 'Ladder,' and 'Basement.' Downie observes carefully, and almost perceives feelings from his inanimate subjects. Thus 'Hallway,' accepts indifference. 'But just, dreams the hallway, hold the party, spill the wine on me.'"
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Poets in Profile: Glen Downie (Erin Knight, Open Book Toronto, 4/22/2011). “Shoe store to sawdust shop, fork to clothes closet to plumb bob — Glen Downie's Local News…examines these mundane spaces and objects with an inquisitiveness and generosity that gives us a new perspective on the world we build our lives around.”
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Interviews
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Poets in Profile: Glen Downie (Erin Knight, Open Book Toronto, 4/22/2011). "Shoe store to sawdust shop, fork to clothes closet to plumb bob — Glen Downie's Local News…examines these mundane spaces and objects with an inquisitiveness and generosity that gives us a new perspective on the world we build our lives around.”
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