Going Top Shelf
Subtitle: An Anthology of Canadian Hockey Poetry
Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Company Ltd
Published: September 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781894384995
Subjects: Ice hockey; Poetry anthologies: from c 1900 -; Sports & Recreation; Sports; Canada; General; Hockey - General; 20th century; Canadian poetry; Hockey; Poetry
Description: "Going Top Shelf: An Anthology of Canadian Hockey Poetry brings together for the first time in one collection some of Canada's best hockey poems and song lyrics. Included are works by such outstanding Canadian poets as Michael Ondaatje, Al Purdy, Margaret Avison, Don Gutteridge, and Lorna Crozier. And for music lovers with a taste for contemporary Canadian music, this entertaining collection includes lyrics by The Tragically Hip, The Rheostatics, Kathleen Edwards, Stompin' Tom Connors, and others." "Going Top Shelf represents a cross-section of Canada's poets and composers ranging from 19th-century romantic poet Sir Charles G.D. Roberts to contemporary pop songstress Jane Siberry. Altogether, more than 30 authors and songwriters from across Canada reflect an intriguing diversity of forms and literary expression. Yet in all the poems, ice, or the sport played so extensively in Canada upon it, is used to express the ideas, beliefs, and attitudes of this diverse group of Canadian authors." "For the poetry scholar, for the lover of good music, for the hockey fan, this is a collection to be enjoyed. Indeed, Going Top Shelf represents a literary "top shelf" of hockey poetry without equal. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.