Shane Rhodes

Shane Rhodes' latest collection, tengo sed, is a series of prose poems, lyrics and other complaints that chronicle a movement between Mexico and Canada. In a collection rich with detail, we read about the preparation of camotes, and of the “unending labour” of the sea. We see murals, thick with dust and irony. Guns are fired. Children join the festivities. Beautiful and mocking, serious and playful, these poems ask a simple, but pertinent question: how does one translate place?

Read a sample from tengo sed...

Our Second Alcuin Shane's book won 2nd place in the Limited Editions category of the Alcuin Society's 23rd Annual Awards for Excellence in Book Design. This is our second consecutive award in this category. For a closer look at this book, please visit Jason's portfolio website.

Shane Rhodes has published poetry, essays and reviews in magazines, journals and newspapers across Canada. He has also had work broadcast on CBC Radio One's Definitely Not the Opera, Between the Covers and This Morning. He has been an editor with The Fiddlehead, filling Station and Qwerty. Shane won the Alfred G. Bailey Award and the Alberta Book Award for Poetry for his first collection, The Wireless Room. His second book, holding pattern, was published in Spring 2002 by NeWest Press. Read some of Shane's work in the archive...

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This edition is limited to 74 numbered copies handsewn in paper wrappers, with 26 copies, lettered A-Z, in a hard-bound triptych case, all signed by the author.

Numbered issue: out of print
Summer 2004
ISBN 1-894744-17-9

Lettered issue: out of print
Summer 2004
ISBN 1-894744-18-7

Printed on acid-free 80lb Gilbert Realm Text “Natural” (trimmed), the wrapper on Khadi Bhutanese Tsasho (deckled) with a Legion Thai Mango flyleaf (trimmed) and a blank cover of Legion India Jute (deckled); hand-stitched with archival waxed “natural” linen thread.

5.3" × 9.0"; 40pp.