You Must Imagine The Cold Here by Kim Fahner
poems by Kim Fahner
In this first collection of her poems, Kim Fahner writes with a visual and tactile power sensitive to the interminglings of myth, supernatural, and natural in the emotional, physical and mental scenes of everyday living. She has a deft awareness of the ironies that populate our lives, and helps us appreciate their poignancy, and their humour. She is a Canadian of Irish heritage and the lore of Eire is never far from her words, whether she writes of Canada, England, Scotland, or Yeats's Sligo. You Must Imagine The Cold Here is a poetic debut that augurs well for the future.
Reviews
Rob O'Flanagan, writing in the Sudbury Star, says "Fahner has written poetry that speaks to all of us."
"Fahner's poems are anything but cliched. . . . [Her] work deserves a wide audience." Don Precosky, Canadian Book Review Annual
In Spring 2000, on the basis of You Must Imagine The Cold Here and her published short stories, Kim Fahner was shortlisted for the Canadian Authors Association Air Canada Award for writers under 30!
Book Details
Published March, 1997
ISBN 1-896350-03-8
38pp, pbk
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About the Author
Kim Fahner lives and writes in Sudbury, Ontario. She enjoys walking in the rain, rowing, Irish ceili dancing, singing, and sleepwalking in her spare time. She only writes in green ink, and thinks that Stan Rogers should be sainted. Favourite poets include Seamus Heaney, Patrick Kavanagh, Dylan Thomas, Bronwen Wallace and W. B. Yeats. Hopes to one day live and write in Sligo, Ireland. Realizes, finally, that one's own reality is often stranger than fiction.