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Penny Dreadful

Shannon Stewart

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Penny Dreadfuls were popular, cheaply produced 19th century magazines filled with brutal and sensationalist tales. In her uncompromising second collection of poetry, Vancouver poet Shannon Stewart revisits their grisly spirit through a series of meditations that examine the medias obsession for luridness, be it tabloids or respectable newspapers. At the centre of the book is the story of accused serial killer Robert Pickton. In poems of great psychological risk-taking, Stewart tracks the missing women of Vancouvers East Side and describesusing a voice by turns gritty, funny, shrewd, and broken-heartedhow the gruesome details of their reported murders seep into her role as a mother and wife. Fable-like, ribald, and packing a powerful anti-puritanical punch, Penny Dreadful furnishes us with unsentimental X-rays of the contemporary world and its sundry terrors.

Language: English

Pages: 73

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Vehicule Press

Release: September 01, 2008

ISBN: 1550652451

ISBN 13: 9781550652451

Penny Dreadful

Shannon Stewart

0/5 ( ratings)

Penny Dreadfuls were popular, cheaply produced 19th century magazines filled with brutal and sensationalist tales. In her uncompromising second collection of poetry, Vancouver poet Shannon Stewart revisits their grisly spirit through a series of meditations that examine the medias obsession for luridness, be it tabloids or respectable newspapers. At the centre of the book is the story of accused serial killer Robert Pickton. In poems of great psychological risk-taking, Stewart tracks the missing women of Vancouvers East Side and describesusing a voice by turns gritty, funny, shrewd, and broken-heartedhow the gruesome details of their reported murders seep into her role as a mother and wife. Fable-like, ribald, and packing a powerful anti-puritanical punch, Penny Dreadful furnishes us with unsentimental X-rays of the contemporary world and its sundry terrors.

Language: English

Pages: 73

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Vehicule Press

Release: September 01, 2008

ISBN: 1550652451

ISBN 13: 9781550652451

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