First-Time Listener

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Pub Date Oct 01 2022 | Archive Date Dec 15 2022
Poetry & Verse

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First Time Listener explores the ramped up 21st century digitalization of the social world, while reaching back to the most ancient of manuscript cultures. In Part 1, all is queried: Gilgamesh, God, the Cloud, the Bible, Bob Dylan, technologies of the book, and CNN’s Crimes of the Century. Part 2, Retrospective of the North in Gold, turns contemplative, reading the colours and astrological signs of the digital and urban 21st century worlds. The book concludes with Lost Time, an ambitious long poem that maps Zilm's girlhood in Surrey—located on the south bank of the Fraser River in Metro Vancouver—onto Proust’s Combray, exploring cracks in the interesections of class, sex, gender, and language.

First Time Listener explores the ramped up 21st century digitalization of the social world, while reaching back to the most ancient of manuscript cultures. In Part 1, all is queried: Gilgamesh, God...

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A Note From the Publisher

Jennifer Zilm's previous poetry collections have been shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry

Jennifer Zilm's previous poetry collections have been shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry

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Events and readings to take place in BC. Various virtual events to take place during the Fall.

Mailing review copies widely across Canada. Review copies available in the US. 

Available for interviews, giveaways and other promotional opportunities. 

Events and readings to take place in BC. Various virtual events to take place during the Fall.

Mailing review copies widely across Canada. Review copies available in the US. 

Available for interviews...

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EDITION Other Format
ISBN 9781771837460
PRICE $17.95 (USD)
PAGES 100

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High art poetry book that will undoubtedly appeal to the masses as well as poetry fans. I enjoyed many of the pieces and am still thinking about the prose.

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A super interesting read! Zilm uses her librarian work as well as her connection to bible studies and mental health to create thought provoking pieces on the way we interpret language and ourselves. Some of the enjoyment for me was in the wittiness of the query poems as well as the gorgeous use of metaphor and visual language. Some poems get bogged down in the "wordiness" and might be a turn off for (excuse the pun) first time poetry readers, but I think avid poetry fans will enjoy the depth.

My favorite poems are: " Devotional: Hastings & Princess", "Hey! Fever", "QUERY: Is it true I can get any book online?", and "First Time Listener: A how-to guide."

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Smart, witty and interesting. Enjoyed these poems. I read a couple months ago, so I don't remember details, but I enjoyed the collection.

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