Synopses & Reviews
The poems in The Monument Cycles investigate how memorials, cenotaphs, and works of public art express our desire to capture the fleeting and the intangible. Specifically addressing the city of Vancouver, the texts focus on its impoverished Downtown Eastside and explore the narrator's experiences working there, in the "poorest postal code in Canada."
Mariner Janes works in the inspiring and troubled Downtown Eastside district of Vancouver, British Columbia. He incorporates the multitude of voices from this community into his work, through found poetry, transcription, and storytelling. Janes is currently working on a collection of poetry that examines the lives and deaths of social and environmental figures from around the world.
Synopsis
Poems that investigate how we use monuments, memorials, and public space to capture that which is ever fleeting and intangible.
Synopsis
The Monument Cycles investigates our relation to monuments and works of public art, ranging from memorials to cenotaphs, expressing our desire to capture the fleeting and intangible. Speaking specifically to the city of Vancouver, these poems focus explicitly on the impoverished Downtown Eastside, exploring the narrator's experiences working in the poorest postal code in Canada.
About the Author
Mariner Janes was born in Victoria, BC, and raised in East Vancouver. His books include
The Monument Cycles (forthcoming from Talonbooks) and
blueprint, a chapbook. He has also been published in the literary journal
West Coast Line. While studying at Simon Fraser University, he co-edited
iamb magazine, a venue for new and emerging writers.
Janes works in Vancouvers troubled and inspiring Downtown Eastside, and aims to bring the multitude of voices he finds there into his work, through found poetry, transcription, and storytelling. He is currently at work on a second collection of poetry that peers into the lives and deaths of social and environmental figures from around the world.