BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN WITH PET FOXES

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Beautiful Children With Pet Foxes by Giller Prize-longlisted author Jennifer LoveGrove bears witness to moments of extreme crisis that will take you on an odyssey through a terrain of startling dreamscapes. These are poems haunted by the ghosts of alienation, trauma, delusion, and fear that the past decade has instilled in us. Here you will encounter a whole host of personas, both tame and wild—from humans, to foxes, moose, deer and crows, slugs, fish, beetles, mosquitos, earthworms, and more—who give voice to the things we can’t express in our daily lives.

“LoveGrove’s poetry apprentices itself to the world we live in, pacing out the dimensions of the enclosure called the present–the enclosures of culture, history, family, and other patriarchal institutions–with a keen eye and a relentless heart. In pursuit simultaneously of holistic perception, love, and an escape route, LoveGrove invites words to hold hands in unusual combinations, enters dreams and lets consciousness run feral. “There was a war going on and / ours was a very important mission,” LoveGrove writes, and it’s true.” –Helen Guri, author of Match

“The collection culminates in the astounding title poem ‘Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes,’ pitch-perfect in its pacing, its whimsy, its desperation and its bite.”
– from Globe and Mail review of Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes

“…it is so assured and consistent in its voice, and so artfully choreographed from start to finish, that it is not read so much as it is inhabited.”
– from Rusty Toque review of Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes

“Excellent.”
– from Today’s Book of Poetry

“Other writers might do well to apprentice themselves to LoveGrove’s dark, dense lines.”
– from The Winnipeg Free Press

Click here for video of the BookThug launch of Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes

IFOA interviews me for their blog about Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes and new work, among other things.

Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes: The Single – BookThug launches Chaos & Star Records, with three 7-inch vinyl releases. Canadian musicians Christine Fellows and John K. Samson created a haunting sonic landscape on themes of the animal and human in conjunction with a few of my poems.