Romantic by Mark Callanan Paperback Book 9781771964456

Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetryamp160amp8226 Longlisted for the 2023 EJ Pratt Family Poetry AwardA CBC Best Canadian Poetry Book of 2021amp10Drawing on Arthurian myth the Romantic poets the illfated amp34Great Waramp34 efforts of the Newfoundland Regiment modern parenthood 16bit video games and Major League Baseball these poems examine the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves both as individuals and as communities in order to explain how and why we are the way we are At its heart Romantic interrogates our western societys idealized selfdeluding personal and cultural perspectives