Invisible Publishing

Every day of Poetry Month, we’re spotlighting a book of poetry.

22.

Still Point
by E. Martin Nolan
cover design by Megan Fildes
edited by Jeff Latosik
published 15 October 2017

Still Point examines North America as unified whole and disrupted centre.

The poems in Still Point contrast the calm and tumult of Hurricane Katrina, the deconstruction of Detroit, the financial crisis of 2008, and the BP Gulf oil spill, weaving lyrical sequences and individual pieces into a coherent whole focused on humanity’s relationship to itself and to nature. Still Point tells a story of beauty and horror, and how normalcy stubbornly persists amid history’s arc.

E Martin Nolan works at The Puritan and teaches at The University of Toronto. Born and raised in Detroit, he attended Loyola University New Orleans and U of T. His writing has appeared in Arc, CNQ, and CV2, among others. He lives in Toronto.