Miscreations

Outreach to national major dailiesReviews in national and regional literary publicationsRegional media focus on Canada's east coastAuthor participation in reading series events across CanadaSocial media promotion focusing on book cover artExcerpt campaign for National Poetry month (April)Geotargeted social media ads for Canadian East Coast and Newfoundland Short DescriptionIf everyone and everything has been created, what does it mean to be miscreated? Grant Loveys's new collection finds a place for the world's miscreations and examines how and why they survive.Sales and Market Bullets"Lovely and strange, promising plenty of poems that are 'half drunk on moonlight / like froth from a dish of freezing milk' - while staying quiet and intimate, drawing the reader in with a conversational tone and the promise of future intimacy." - The American Reader on Our Gleaming Bones UnrobedRecipient of the 2019 Newfoundland and Labrador Arts & Letters Award.Winner of the 2011 Cuffer Prize for Fiction.AudienceReaders of Canadian poetryReaders of Loveys's previous work Winner of the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts & Letters Award and the Cuffer Prize for FictionMiscreations, the second collection by Grant Loveys, mulls over the metaphorical concept of miscreation - how people, objects, and relationships are imperfectly designed by their various creators - through the use of direct, visceral language, and frank, sometimes shocking, imagery.Unconcerned with aesthetic imperfections, Miscreations focuses instead on how people and situations can be created from unstable, often opposing, elements and examines how these people and situations manage to survive. This is poetry that looks beyond a misprinted shirt and deep into the person wearing it beyond empty memes and Instagram platitudes and into the complicated, flawed and searching human readers who navigate a world that is often at odds with itself.