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Mariner Janes was born in Victoria, BC, and raised in East Vancouver. His books include The Monument Cycles (forthcoming from Talonbooks) and blueprint, a chapbook. He has also been published in the literary journal West Coast Line. While studying at Simon Fraser University, he co-edited iamb magazine, a venue for new and emerging writers. Janes works in Vancouver's troubled and inspiring Downtown Eastside, and aims to bring the multitude of voices he finds there into his work, through found poetry, transcription, and storytelling. He is currently at work on a second collection of poetry that peers into the lives and deaths of social and environmental figures from around the world.
“The Monument Cycles examines the ways ongoing forms of loss are
variously memorialized, materialized, and situated as monuments. …
These poems collectively straddle the disparate geographical and
historical ties underlying monuments and spaces … It is, however,
always the monument around which this collection’s daunting breadth
continually coheres, not into a cacophonous or sanctimonious
frenzy, but rather in the pulsing echoes of a poetry aware of time
and place, intent on making memory as well as memorializing …”
– Canadian Literature
“Mariner Janes’s Monument Cycles makes its mark in a growing
tradition of contemporary urban poetry notable for its polyvocality
and elegiac exploration of the very human crises of late
capitalism. This is a poetry both simple and smart, direct and
oblique, urgent and carefully pausing over the details of everyday
life though which we peer into “the burning world.” The poem is a
fleeting monument to be sure – but perhaps no better, or more
appropriate, monument is possible to the fragile lives Janes so
carefully memorializes as he builds his “ark” of words from the
“bones” he finds lying around.”
– Stephen Collis, author of the Dorothy Livesay award winning On
the Material, and Dispatches from the Occupation
“A new urban vernacular poetry is emerging in Vancouver – tied to
the rhythms of the city and the contradictions of the urban.
Mariner Jane’s The Monument Cycles talks to the entanglements of
all of the spaces and moments that make up a city, and it talks to
(and through) other poets who set foot into the unpredictability of
the street.”
– Jeff Derksen, author of Dwell and Down Time
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