Finalist for the 2014 Archibald Lampman Award for Outstanding Book of
Poetry!
Like the rhapsodists, the storytellers of ancient Greece, A Pretty
Sight shapes voices into a stitched song propelled toward the next
century. Haunted by time's frame / that dark shape near the edge of the
canvas, David O'Meara sifts culture, art, war, rebellion, and
technology, offering defiance amid decay, while singing with the
conflicting impulses of reflection and dissent.
David O'Meara has authored three poetry collections and a play. He's
been shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award, the ReLit Prize, the
Trillium Book Award, a National Magazine Award, four Rideau Awards, and
he won the Archibald Lampman Award twice. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario.