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      all the little shards

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      Date
      2020-09-25
      Author
      Lawson, Jameson David Kelly
      ORCID
      0000-0001-8262-7066
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      all the little shards is a collection of short personal poems about place, examining the 24 year old speaker’s move from stagnation in semi-rural Ontario to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. As the speaker explores place and life in a new location without any support systems, he struggles with clinical depression, alcohol, social anxiety and ineptitude, as well as loneliness and dissociation with people and place. Isolation and defamiliarization of places and vernacular permeate the collection, and as the narrative progresses the speaker tries to embrace his new home to create, overcome, and enjoy a distinctly different mentality of place. The use of formal styles of poetry and flâneur motifs help locate the speaker and his thoughts while lyrical free-form pieces bring in pauses for meditation, and questions that change the speaker’s perspective, painting pictures of places scattered across the urban and rural prairie. The collection is a journey through self and place, bookended by uncertainty towards the future and the looming move away from a norm—from Ontario to Saskatchewan, and from Saskatchewan to the uncertain right as things seem to be falling into place. This uncertainty about what was before and what comes after is confronted by the aforementioned questions as places become fluid, and the speaker’s changed perspective creates personal dissonance and new appreciation for Saskatchewan.
      Degree
      Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
      Department
      English
      Program
      Writing
      Committee
      Lynes, Jeanette; Flynn, Kevin; Klaasen, Frank; Benning, Sheri
      Copyright Date
      November 2020
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/13053
      Subject
      poetry, Saskatchewan
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