Welcome to the website of B.C. poet and author, David Zieroth.
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David's New
Poems page to read some of his latest work.
LATEST NEWS:
The
Fly in Autumn
David's
latest book of poetry is available from Harbour
Publishing.
Winner
of the 2009 Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry!
The Fly in Autumn received this citation from the jury: “In
The Fly in Autumn, David Zieroth addresses our common and defining
human fate—the loneliness that is a rehearsal for death—with
a tenderness and buoyancy that shows the reader 'how to walk in the dark
with flowers.' The intricacy and exuberance of rhyme and the breadth of
vision are stunning.”
The Fly in Autumn is a nuanced work with an absurdist twist in
which recognizable landscapes—of North Vancouver quays and piers
and harbour fog—are sometimes irrevocably altered by "water-light"
into places of the mind alive with "the hundred thousand thoughts
everyone collects in a day." Risking unease, using language both
tender and ironic, Zieroth's poems range from the cockiness of flight,
from Dick and Jane readers to insurance clerks and blind nurses, and to
the inevitability of decline. Still, the poet remains alert to the re-emergence
of "his boyhood hope: to be brave, to ship out, to learn to sleep
on waves."
Click
here
for an excerpt.
Berlin
Album
David's
new chapbook is now available from Rubicon
Press.
Berlin Album alludes to Goethe, Heine, Rilke, Musil, Schiele, Isherwood, Helmut Kohl, even Obergruppenfuehrer Schneidhuber. The travelogue observations of a speaker on high alert—to both present and past—a man in history and looking for it at the same time. Plus postcards in the form of heroic sestets from Mitte (in the heart of former East Berlin), Austria and Italy. In Berlin Album the historical past and immediate present are brought together by a common pulse.
Click here for an excerpt.
The
Alfred Gustav Press
Subscriptions
to Series
Four from the Alfred Gustav Press are
now available.
The
Village of Sliding Time
Available
from Harbour
Publishing.
Read an excerpt
and some
reviews.
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