Mike Barnes Non-Fiction Earle Birney was a poet

Earle Birney was a poet

Ten varied stories – many published in Canada’s best literary journals – of contemporary women learning what they want from sex

but there is the occasional villanelle and sestina amidst a squalid sea of punchy narrative

These poems offer hard-won wisdom alongside a fierce commitment to life itself

Mike Barnes Non-Fiction Earle Birney was a poetMike Barnes is the author of the novels Catalogue Raisonn and The Syllabus, the short fiction collections Aquarium winner of the 1999 Danuta Gleed Award and Contrary Angel, and two poetry collections, Calm Jazz Sea, shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial award, and a thaw foretold. His stories have appeared twice in Best Canadian Stories, three times in The Journey Prize Anthology, and won the Silver Medal for Fiction at the National Magazine