Everyone at This Party

Everyone at This Party

by Tanja Bartel
Everyone at This Party

Everyone at This Party

by Tanja Bartel

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Overview

On CBC Books' list of 29 works of Canadian poetry to watch for in spring 2020

In Tanja Bartel's riveting poetry debut, the bucolic Vancouver suburbs clash with the interpersonal. The reader dips into the lives of individuals whose day-to-day is anything but peaceful, altered by luck and choice, fear and failure. In poems that light upon themes such as regret, guilt, and human empathy, Bartel highlights the arbitrary nature of life and the demons that persist within.

Unsentimental and blunt, but ultimately forgiving, Everyone at This Party scans the suburbs and tries to make sense of our private selves.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781773101255
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
Publication date: 04/28/2020
Pages: 80
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.25(d)

About the Author

Tanja Bartel holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia. Her poetry and non-fiction have appeared in numerous venues including Geist, the Antigonish Review, and the American Journal of Medical Genetics. She lives in Pitt Meadows, BC.

Table of Contents

Everyone at This Party 13

Current Phobia One: Atychiphobia 14

Smiley Face 16

Love History 17

Wonder White 18

Sawmill Town 19

Ecclesiastes Remix 20

Hot Sidewalk 21

Big Truck, No Luck 22

Current Phobia Two: Kakorrhaphiophobia 23

Boxes 25

Little Surprises 26

Backyard Wedding 27

Shield 28

Kill Switch 29

Mother in Her White Nightgown 30

Drinking Buddy 31

Five Cents per Increment of Death 32

My Tarantula, My Therapist 33

A Safe, Quiet Neighbourhood 34

Autopsy 35

Crash by Night 36

Subdivision 37

Birds and Fish and Loaves and Fathers 38

It's Not Me, It's Her 41

Post-Occupation 42

Current Phobia Three: Gerascophobia 44

Stockholm Syndrome 46

Stomachs 47

Garbage 48

A Brief Dalliance with the World 50

The Signs 52

White Tulips 53

Ecclesiastes 54

Things Heard in a Day 55

The Meeting 57

Name and Whereabouts Unknown 58

Dripping Laundry 60

Purls of Wisdom 61

Current Phobia Four: Agoraphobia 62

Best Laid Plans 64

After Words 65

Ode 67

Storm Watch 68

Oxygen 69

Whisper Street 70

Acknowledgements 73

Notes 75

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