Almost Beauty: New and Selected Poems

Winner, New Brunswick Book Award (Poetry) and Alcuin Society Book Design Awards Third Prize (Poetry)
Finalist, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry

Sue Sinclair has been praised for her crisp, lyrical poems imbued with subtle, subtextual philosophic musings (Globe and Mail). She has been described as a poet who writes her way to a new understanding of the world and carries her readers with her (Journal of Canadian Poetry). Sinclairs debut collection, Secrets of Weather and Hope, was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award, while subsequent collections have earned a place on the Globe Top 100 list (Mortal Arguments), won the IPPY Poetry Award (The Drunken Lovely Bird), and the Pat Lowther Award (Heavens Thieves).

This collection includes an introductory essay by editor and poet Ross Leckie, over one hundred selected poems from Sinclairs twenty-year career, and new poems that consider the poets evolving relationships with the idea of beauty and with the more-than-human world in a time of manufactured upheaval. The new poems, many never-before published, exemplify Sinclairs masterful powers of observation and her precise, arresting language.