God's Green Earth - limited edition hardcover

God's Green Earth - limited edition hardcoverThe poems of Noelle Kocot's latest collection are ones of acute astonishment, tracking the intense spiritual and ecstatic elements that pervade the everyday world, the "fine surges of torrential Probabilities" amid the "flotsam strewn under this compromised Heaven." Bleak yet full of glory, these poems are a quest that showcase a poet at her visionary and poetic heights, where every turn of line, every sudden appearance, is one to arrest our attention

is companionable

and I’m glad for it

Author of Madness

Brook Corfman

and the poems hold echoes of elements one might also see in the works of Canadian poets Stephen Brockwell and Stuart Ross: a slight narrative distance

Simonds’s language throughout is as lush as the places it describes

“Clear writing is clear thinking

Some lines will make you cackle while others will make your heart ache

articulating the indefinable by way of pivoting between razor-sharp images

as their works are woven into new historical and socio-linguistic sites

Brian Laidlaw

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