Peter Sanger

Peter Sanger is a poet and essayist, widely known for his critical writings on poets John Thompson, Douglas Lochhead, and Richard Outram. His recent books include Lightfield: The Photography of Thaddeus Holownia and Odysseus Asleep: Uncollected Sequences, 1994–2019. He lives in Truro, NS.



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Sea Run: Notes on John Thompson’s Stilt Jack
Peter Sanger

2023 / Literary Criticism Canadian Poetry / $28.95
9781554472581 / Trade paper / 144 pp


Sea Run is a fully revised and expanded edition of Peter Sanger’s scarce, privately circulated monograph on the sources and possible meanings of John Thompson’s influential poetry collection Stilt Jack (1978). Working with manuscripts, typescripts, documents and other personal papers that were unavailable at the time of Sea Run’s first appearance in the 1980s, Sanger has produced “a species of notebook compiled at a pedestrian’s pace, with allowance for detour and obstacles.” Sea Run offers readers a window both into the texts and cultural contexts underpinning Thompson’s richly allusive poems, and also into a mode of reading and thinking about poetry that recognizes and engages the “cultural keepings” in which literature is rooted.



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Biorachan Road
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2022 / Essay / $150.00 CAN
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Odysseus Asleep: Uncollected Sequences, 1994-2019
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Lightfield: The Photography of Thaddeus Holownia
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2018 / Photography, Essays, Canadian Art / $24.95 CAN
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2015 / Literary Criticism / $34.95 CAN
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2014 / Essay / $9.95 CAN
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2013 / Poetry / $25.95 CAN
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2012 / Poetry / $21.95 CAN
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2010 / Biography / $65.95 CAN
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2007 / Literary Criticism / $29.95 CAN
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2006 / Poetry / $19.95 CAN
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2005 / Books & reading / $59.95 CAN
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2005 / Books & reading / $27.95 CAN
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2002 / Books & reading / $21.95 CAN
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2002 / Books & reading / $49.95 CAN
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2001 / Essays / $32.95 CAN
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2001 / Poetry / $4.95 CAN
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