All The Names Between

• All the Names Between is a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for poetry

All the Names Betweenis Julia McCarthy's third collection. Grounded in the experience of presence in which the external and internal meet, a crossroads of consciousness where "a language without a name / remembers us" and the poem is a votive act,All the Names Betweenreflects the shadow-light of being, of what is and what isn't, of the seen and the unseen, the forgotten and the remembered here "every elegy has an ode at its centre / every ode has an elegy around its edges." (FromBrick Books)

• Why poet Julia McCarthy would leave books open when she wasn't reading them

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