{"product_id":"the-collected-poems-of-william-hawkins-paperback","title":"The Collected Poems of William Hawkins - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCameron Anstee\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eWilliam Hawkins\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in 1940 in Ottawa, Ontario, legendary poet and musician William \u003cbr\u003eHawkins is one of the most important artists to emerge from Canada's \u003cbr\u003ecapital. He published six books from 1964-1974, attended the 1963 UBC \u003cbr\u003eSummer Poetry Seminar, organized poetry readings at Ottawa's infamous Le\u003cbr\u003e Hibou Coffeehouse, wrote songs and performed in bands (The Children, \u003cbr\u003eHeavenly Blue), and published widely in Canada's most important little \u003cbr\u003emagazines of the 1960s before retreating into silence in the 1970s and \u003cbr\u003eworking as a cab driver until his retirement in 2012. \u003cem\u003eThe Collected Poems of William Hawkins\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e gathers Hawkins's complete output. His books are printed alongside \u003cbr\u003epreviously unpublished and uncollected poems including early magazine \u003cbr\u003epublications, the long-lost book Sweet and Sour Nothings, poems from the\u003cbr\u003e time of his extended silence, as well as all work produced since his \u003cbr\u003egradual re-appearance in the 1990s. This volume presents the generous, \u003cbr\u003edefiant, idiosyncratic, and compelling work of William Hawkins in its \u003cbr\u003eentirety, making possible the renewed attention that this significant \u003cbr\u003ebody of work deserves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 354\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 7.87 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 15, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52158783488231,"sku":"9781928107026","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/8329\/8279\/files\/50fbde0b426874953bf3da718ac86cc6.webp?v=1780527377","url":"https:\/\/skinnonsmooth.myshopify.com\/products\/the-collected-poems-of-william-hawkins-paperback","provider":"SkinnOnSmooth","version":"1.0","type":"link"}