Navy Blue
by Steve Meagher
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Pub Date Mar 01 2016 | Archive Date Oct 11 2016
Description
Advance Praise
"Navy Blue is an exhilarating, guerrilla romp through tabloid news talk and Internet inanity to set up the seditious poetry Marshall McLuhan would’ve written if he could’ve. These poems are a cross of Bob Dylan casual strangeness and Jimi Hendrix bluesy surrealism. (Think “Visions of Johanna” mixed with “My Friend”.) Each line could spin off into its own bizarre screenplay: “The doctor kept cutting / Now the blood was everywhere … / I listened to the crickets / Their prayers sounded like my bicycle.” Nicely, Meagher gives shout-outs to Ray Souster and Irv Layton, claiming their street-wise vernacular and sardonic, ironic insights. But I see a touch of Dick Brautigan here too, in the accomplished insouciance, the freedom to just “say” and have the meaning be in that liberty. Ladies, gents, here’s the new vibe. Ready to be experienced?" - George Elliott Clarke, Parliamentary Poet Laureate
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781771830966 |
| PRICE | $18.00 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
Joseph S, Reviewer
Navy Blue by Steve Meagher is the poet's first book of poetry. Meagher grew up in Oakville, Ontario. His poems have appeared in Carousel, The Nashwaak Review and Ottawa Arts Review. He lives in Toronto.
Sharp, jagged, and possibly scarring. The words cut deep even when there are only a few. From watching his sister on her deathbed to grandpa's bedtime stories, Meagher captures emotion and raw sense of reality. Even the poets are a strong and dark breed:
The poets of Mimco They'll slit your throat For a dollar and a quarter.
Or
The streets carry me softly I push away the bright lights So I can run with the poets I can say things to the factories.
There is a capturing of what we all share even when it is something we would rather forget. That cheating redneck neighbor is the poet's "My Pal Sal." His collection of friends is recorded in "New Saints." -- Shark Tooth, Scarecrow, Tin Man...
Meagher takes the reader to a gritty place of growing up with the street rather than "home." We question our own mortality and survival. Navy Blue is to poetry what Hubert Selby Jr was to fiction and Lou Reed was to music.
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