Left Fields

By: Jeanette Lynes

January 2003
88 pages | ISBN 0-919897-88-6
$15.00

Left Fields, Jeanette Lynes's second collection of poetry with Wolsak and Wynn, consolidates her reputation for writing clear-eyed, accessible and deadly funny poetry. In her first book she introduced us to a difficult childhood in Southern Ontario; in Left Fields she revisits the solid, angry/loving bond with her mother, the attitudes she adopts as weapons against the world, and the left fields of her childhood.

Reviews

• Review (Maxianne Berger, ARC 54, 6/1/2005)
• Poetry for the Ear (M. Travis Lane, The Fiddlehead, No. 223, 3/1/2005)
• Review (University of Toronto Quarterly, 12/1/2004)
• Review (Martin Wallace, The Malahat Review, 147, 6/1/2004)
• In praise of new Canadian poetry (George Fetherling, The New Brunswick Reader, 4/3/2004)
• Bad girl locker room stuff (Toronto Star, 10/20/2003)

Other Titles by Jeanette Lynes

• The New Blue Distance (2009)
• A Woman Alone on the Atikokan Highway (1999)