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Question & Answer
Alison Pick
How is one to speak with the dead? Why should you turn? Is this an apple? Anyone for tea before night falls? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
With these questions, plucked from the poems of writers whom she admires, Alison Pick fashions “answers:” extraordinary meditations on life and death, love and work, happiness and sorrow. The book includes a remarkable sequence about the poet’s discovery as a teenager of her father’s Jewish ancestry. Alison Pick is the winner of the 2002 Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award for the best unpublished writer under 35. The jury wrote: “The poems prove once again that poetry generates poetry ... that literary excellence fuels excellence in the generations that follow.” By turns spiritual and earthy, accessible and complex, thoughtful and wrenching, Question & Answer announces the arrival a brilliant new poetic voice.
Alison Pick is the 2002 Bronwen Wallace Award winner for most promising unpublished writer under 35 in Canada. Question & Answer, her first book of poetry, was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award. Her poetry and prose have won or been shortlisted for numerous literary awards and have appeared in publications across Canada. Alison Pick is the winner of the the Alfred Bailey Manuscript Prize and the Grain Short Prose Poem Contest. And in 2006, Pick’s The Mind’s Eye won the CBC Literary Award for Poetry. Originally from Kitchener, Ontario, the author now divides her time between Ontario and Newfoundland. www.alisonpick.com
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