Take the Compass

Name: Take the Compass
Brand: McGill-Queen's University Press

McGill-Queen's University Press

Take the CompassAuthor(s): Maureen Hynes\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, Canada\nImprint: McGill-Queen's University Press\nISBN-13: 9780228018810, 978-0228018810\nSynopsis\ntake the harp, take / the Fitbit and the Band-Aid box. Fold the whole / grey sheet of sky, lumpy and unalluring / into your rucksack.\n\nA strong theme of journeys is threaded through Take the Compass. In a sense, every poem is itself a journey into the past or the present, or toward what we hope and fear for the future. Poems can be journeys of repair and recovery, adventure and discovery. However, even in pandemic times when our journeying is curtailed, or at least confined, when we are abiding in one physical location with chafing and restiveness, we are still travelling. One of those journeys is discovering where language can take us.\n\nMaureen Hyness poems travel through cities and their outskirts to rivers, forests, and graveyards. They travel in time into the troubled prese.