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Tidal Fury is an inaugural collection by a unique, powerfully evocative and imaginative voice. Poetic texts are intermeshed in narratorial strands. A love story -- he was “a literary device, and then I discovered we knew each other intimately.” An aged narcissist who wields power and invokes a subtext on the social politics of power. A poet whose muse is Medusa. Tidal Fury is a poetry on the edge of the text of an interior ocean of fury and passion. The collection includes artwork from the poet.


Tidal Fury Book Launch

Tidal Fury is available at all major booksellers:

GuernicaEditions | Amazon.ca |
Amazon.com | Amazon.UK |
Indigo Books | BookDepository
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Goodreads |

Buy a signed book here, if you are in Canada; if not, send me an email. Thank you!

Tidal Fury (Guernica Editions, 2016) is available at all major booksellers:

GuernicaEditions | Amazon.ca |
Amazon.com | Amazon.UK |
Indigo Books | BookDepository
|
Goodreads |

Buy a signed book here, if you are in Canada; if not, send me an email.


Praise for Tidal Fury

'Reading Tidal Fury is akin to bathing in the ocean at midnight: ethereal and erotic; sensuous and startling. [A] deliciously dark collection of poetry and artwork.'
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Heather Babcock, author of Being Underground and Moving Backwards

'Tidal Fury
is a richly layered, challenging collection by a multi-talented woman. Each line of Tidal Fury shuttles and re-strands a woman immersed in art, culture, mythology who braids and beads words and images in a complex, often erotically-charged conversation with various characters and with the reader, whom she meets "at the edge of the text."'
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John Oughton, author of Time Slip and Death by Triangulation

'Tidal Fury
introduces the reader to a series of poetic texts underscored by a sensibility of desire, loss, and pain. The images are highly original, evocative, powerful and memorable. The underlying mythology is represented in a highly poetic style. A primeval force with a mythical dimension underlies the narrative, which propels the reader forward with an irresistible force….A powerful book, which reveals the depths of the author’s poetic imagination.'
-Irena Nikolova, author of
Complementary Modes of Representation in Keats, Novalis, and Shelley

Tidal Fury
'is a blueprint for how to channel life's challenges into modes of evolved self-expression. Brenda's work needs a new language to describe it. You won't be disappointed if you buy this book ... it can act as an ally and companion on your journey.'
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Stirling Davenport, author of The Silver Reindeer, and two earlier novels.

'What a wealth of riches is stored in Tidal Fury! Such thought-provoking insights and powerful reflections on the human condition. The artwork that accompanies the poetic narrative is a marriage of words and visuals that results in marvellous textures and layers.'
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Lisa de Nikolits, author of The Nearly Girl and five earlier novels.



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When Brenda Clews reads, her whole body moves to the rhythm of the lines.
Nancy Walden


A video of my longest performance of Tidal Fury yet. Many thanks to Tom Gannon Hamilton for accompanying me with his magic violin, and Jeff Howard for his amazing video clips. See drop-down menu below where I talk about the process of memorizing poetry.

Reviews

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Charles Taylor

Open Book: The In Character interview


Tidal Fury explores subjectivity in the fluid self-portraits that emerge. The text suggests that we are speaking subjects who cannot look upon ourselves. We can only see our reflections in various mirrors, literal and symbolic. In an oceanic text, boundaries between self and other, self and the vast interior landscapes of thought and passion are intermeshed and fluid. The book is an interweaving of poetry, prose poetry, prose, letters, journal entries and theory. Drawings and paintings are also attached to various pieces and are interspersed throughout the book. In the subjectivity of the self-in-creation, a ‘style composed of styles’ emerged to embody the pulses of enfleshed thought, the utterance, the poetic that informs Tidal Fury.

Charles Taylor

Irena Nikolova


Brenda Clews’ Tidal Fury introduces the reader to a series of poetic texts underscored by a sensibility of desire, loss, and pain. The images are highly original, evocative, powerful and memorable. The underlying mythology is represented in a highly poetic style. A primeval force with a mythical dimension underlies the narrative, which propels the reader forward with an irresistible force. 

Charles Taylor

Cate McKim


Part poetry, part storytelling, Tidal Fury weaves a narrative of love, obsession and power in a series of poem stories that includes images of original art works by Clews.

John Francis Walter

John F Walter


"Portrait of the socially constructed female as artist deconstructing herself."

"…a feminist masterpiece…"

John's poem-by-poem notes on
Tidal Fury — a tour de force of interpretation that elucidates the density and simplicity of the text with his vast knowledge and dazzling erudition.



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