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Tom Wayman has published nineteen poetry collections edited six anthologies of poets writing about their employment and published three collections of essays on labour arts He has taught at the post secondary level in the United States and Canada and co founded the Vancouver Industrial Writers Union and the Vancouver Centre of the Kootenay School of Writing Wayman has been the recipient of several significant literary awards over his career most recently the 2013 Acorn Plantos Award for People s Poetry for his book Dirty Snow. The order in which we do thingsias I had no idea who Tom Wayman was but liked the look and feel of this book that was displayed on the new books shelf in our local library His poems cover a wide range of subject matter that satisfied the wide range side of me He can be quite the daredevil poetfor example This Poem wants Gordon Shrum to Die about a crappy company owner employer not doing right by his employees Myself I worry about racking up bad karma in my life writing but thank goodness for Tom Wayman who moves confidently through constructing this ill wishing poem Two other stand out poems Epithalamium for a Former Lover is hilarious and again a kind of I don t give a shite this poem must be written piece of writing I think my fave in the book was the poem Mt. The order in which we do thingsback Gimli is a mountain peak in the Valhalla mountain range in the Kootenay s near where I live Four pages of great forest elementsseasons and mountain trekking description but also much that the hiker is experiencing Just beautiful Paperback
Tom Wayman s poetry has been published around the world to great acclaim Wayman is one of Canada s most prolific and public poets and his writing since the 1960s has been by turns angry engaged hopeful tender and hilarious His voice and persona are his alone but simultaneously ours too His recurring themes work mortality love lust friendship the natural world make his work a poetry of human inevitabilities a poetry that exults in the inevitability of seeing poetry in the everyday Wayman s craft is po esis from the Ancient Greek to make making a change making a difference making a ruckus making the most of our time His working life has always been inextricable from his writing one his poems offer an honest and candid consideration of the ideological underpinnings practical realities and subtle beauties of a life lived on job sites and picket lines in union halls classrooms and book stuffed offices and on the page itself The Order in Which We Do Things is a collection of than thirty of Wayman s best poems selected and introduced by Owen Percy Percy s introduction explores the genesis of Wayman s print persona and contextualizes his politically engaged conversational voice within the pantheon of its various publics In his afterword Work and Silence Wayman reflects on his than forty years in print as a work poet and underlines poetry s sustained power to engage readers invite solidarity and stoke the fires of critical resistance to the order in which we do things The Order in Which We Do Things The Poetry of Tom Wayman Laurier Poetry 20
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