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    The Truth Is Told Better This Way
    The Truth Is Told Better This Way
    The Truth Is Told Better This Way
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    The Truth Is Told Better This Way

    By Liz Worth

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    Shortlisted for the 2018 ReLit Award for Poetry

    Pulling from raw themes of grief and death, regret and discomfort, sadness and failure, Worth wears these poems down to their bones. Straddling dreamy, ethereal images and brutal honesty, The Truth is Told Better This Way unravels its secrets one line at a time. The result is oracular and surreal, as each piece could be read as a magic spell that mesmerizes as much as a poem that tantalizes the senses.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookhug Press
    Release dateOct 16, 2017
    ISBN9781771663434
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      The Truth Is Told Better This Way - Liz Worth

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      copyright © 2017 Liz Worth

      all rights reserved

      No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      The production of this book was made possible through the generous assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. BookThug also acknowledges the support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund and the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit and the Ontario Book Fund.

      BookThug wishes to acknowledge the land on which it operates. For thousands of years it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Worth, Liz, 1982–, author

             The truth is told better this way / Liz Worth. — First edition.

      Poems.

      Issued in print and electronic formats.

      ISBN 978-1-77166-342-7 (softcover)

      ISBN 978-1-77166-343-4 (HTML)

      ISBN 978-1-77166-344-1 (PDF)

      ISBN 978-1-77166-345-8 (Kindle)

             I. Title.

      PS8645.O767T78 2017 C811’.6 C2017-905440-6

      C2017-905441-4

      Contents

      Part one: Aspirations

      Suburban wilds: a self-portrait

      Spit, sister

      Supermoon weekend

      Reach deep

      Mirror motion

      Falter grace

      New math

      Split lip

      What you do best

      Carnivores

      All that I have broken

      R.W.

      The truth is told better this way

      Cicada

      Aspirations

      Part two: Forest tides

      Forest tides

      Osso

      Seeds of the moon

      Trailhead

      Promise me something

      Awake, we wanted to

      Anise and fennel

      Phantom Beach

      Part three: The rules we know

      Alderwood

      Sunshine

      Better than each other

      O’Connor Park

      As paradise

      At the next table

      The rules we know

      The bridge

      In the tread

      Saturn changing signs

      Part four: Unfolded confessions

      Distillation

      Transcendence

      Retrograde

      The dog is a god

      Unseen

      The Witch of Positano

      Spells

      Ghost in the hallway

      Wakes the owl

      As locusts

      Corner of the night

      Notes and Acknowledgements

      About the Author

      Colophon

      Part one: Aspirations

      Suburban wilds: a self-portrait

      Chipped tooth

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