The Emily Valentine Poems, Zoe Whittall’s second collection of poetry, is an innovative book that challenges the impossible notions of femininity that permeate our culture. The texts within include self-portraits, prose poems, fake fan letters and confessional lyric snapshots. These are pharmaceutically enhanced tributes to the hangovers of twenty-something love and to the pop icons from an unconventional 1980s childhood. With The Emily Valentine Poems, Zoe Whittall provides us with the perfect soundtrack for the culturally literate rebel in all of us.

isbn: 0973943831 / 9780973943832  │  10.00  │  6 x 6 inches │  88 pages  │  2006

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Zoe Whittall was born in the Eastern Townships of Quebec and is now based in Toronto. She is the author of Bottle Rocket Hearts (Cormorant, 2007) ,named one of top 100 books of 2007 in the Globe and Mail and top 15 books in Quill & Quire magazine, The Best Ten Minutes of Your Life (McGilligan, 2001) and editor of Geeks, Misfits and Outlaws (McGilligan, 2003). She regularly writes cultural criticism for a variety of Canadian magazines.  She won emerging author of the year in Now Magazine, and the Dayne Ogilvie Award for Best Emerging Gay Writer in Canada.  Her latest collection is Precordial Thump (McArthur & Co. 2008).

Praise for The Emily Valentine Poems

“The only book of poetry I enjoyed this year was Zoe Whittall’s The Best Ten Minutes of Your Life. Everything about this book is pleasing.”
— Geist

“Brave, fun inventive poetry…favoring the emotional and the sensual, these delicate reflections and reinventions create a space where desire and distance combine.”
— Broken Pencil