The Tantramar Re-Vision

Kevin Irie's "The Tantramar Re-Vision" explores the relationship between humans and nature, questioning an existence in which the inhuman thrives and the human psyche searches for answers. The book follows trails, waterways, flights, and fears, and questions an existence in which the inhuman thrives and the human psyche searches for answers.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 112 pages
Publication date: 04 August 2021
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press

The Tantramar Re-Vision by Kevin Irie presents a vivid portrait of nature that encompasses both the benign and the bedevilled, colluding or colliding. Inspired by the literary landscape of the late poet John Thompson, the book charts routes of discovery as it follows trails, waterways, flights, and fears, be it through the woods, the wilds, the page, or the mind where it's hard to admit that you are not to your taste. It questions an existence in which the inhuman thrives, ignorant of divinity, while the human psyche continues to search for answers as life takes directions away from it. The Tantramar Marsh setting of John Thompson's Stilt Jack resonates with Irie's landscapes of birds, fish, plants, and wildlife, all still within reach yet part of a world where wind carries sounds it cannot hear. Insightful and meditative, The Tantramar Re-Vision is poetry of the inner self and the outside observer, a poetic testament to the ways literature creates its own landmarks and nature survives without knowing a word.

Dimension: 191 x 127 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780228006374