Maureen Hynes
Take the Compass
Take the Compass
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Take the Compass is a collection of poems that explore journeys, including those into the past, present, and future. The title poem addresses the search for tools and instruments to ward off adversity, and the collection calls on art and nature as invisible helpers, as well as personal values and traits to break the bad news into nine living petals. Maureen Hyness is committed to social justice, acknowledging historical and contemporary inequities, and the search for sources of remedy, repair, and renewal.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 104 pages
Publication date: 31 October 2023
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
A strong theme of journeys is threaded through Take the Compass . In a sense, every poem is itself a journey – into the past or the present, or toward what we hope and fear for the future. Poems can be journeys of repair and recovery, adventure and discovery. However, even in pandemic times when our journeying is curtailed, or at least confined, when we are abiding in one physical location with chafing and restiveness, we are still travelling. One of those journeys is discovering where language can take us.
Maureen Hyness poems travel through cities and their outskirts to rivers, forests, and graveyards. They travel in time into the troubled present, across decades into early childhood, and into our perilous collective futures, seeking guides for these explorations. The title poem addresses the search for tools and instruments that will “ward off adversity” – tools to help us move forward to our chosen destinations.
Take the Compass calls on art and nature as invisible helpers, and on uncountable things – personal values and traits such as courage – to “break the bad news into nine living petals.” As with all her collections, Hynes shows a commitment to social justice, to acknowledging historical and contemporary inequities, to the search for sources of remedy, repair, and renewal, and to the sustaining power of love. The variety of poetic forms she has chosen lets this search carry the complexity and seriousness of its themes.
Dimension: 191 x 127 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780228018810
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