War and Other Inconveniences - Hardcover

Harrison, Trevor W

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1038348064 ISBN 13: 9781038348067

Publisher: FriesenPress, 2025

Synopsis

This collection combines several poems written since 2020 with five poems of older origin. An earlier version of "A Pretty Good Planet" appeared in Alberta Views in March 2022. An earlier version of "Guernica, Then and Now," appeared in Canadian Dimension in November 8, 2023.

Together, the poems deal with the growing dystopian elements of our age. War, threats of war, our collective apathy, and its consequences take centre stage. But war also shares the stage with other threats-climate change, pestilence, oligarchic power, and right-wing authoritarianism. The poems bend towards the dark but in the author's words, he would rather walk in the truthful dark than in a false light.

About this title

About the Author

Trevor W. Harrison is a retired professor of sociologist at the University of Lethbridge, a former Fulbright Chair, and former Director of Parkland Institute at the University of Alberta. He is best known for his studies in political sociology, political economy, and public policy, and is frequently seen in various media. He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of fourteen books, including a recent collection of autobiographical short stories, Tales This Side of Elysian Fields (Endless Sky Books, 2024), and a previous collection of poetry, Another Voice, published by Friesen Press (2016).

Edition details

• Publisher: FriesenPress
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1038348064
• ISBN 13: 9781038348067
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 78