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Finalist for the Writers' Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize for 2SLGBTQ+ Emerging Writers - As heard on CBC - An Autostraddle Most Anticipated Queer Book for April
train hopping
pill popping
"Gwen is my favourite kind of poet, the kind with clear eyes that truly see other humans." --katherena vermette, author of The Break and Procession
"Will make you cackle so heinously your roommate asks what you are choking on." --South Broadway Press
Tweaking working-class colloquialisms into new forms of elegy and song, Gwen Aube's hilarious and uncompromising poems chronicle a precarious, debaucherous carnival of trailer-trash divas and Discord autistics, living and delighting in survival at the edges of technocapital.
Like a digital-age Wanda Coleman, like a transsexual Kevin Killian, like Elizabeth Smart infused with Sybil Lamb, Missed Connections with Tall Girls establishes Aube as a brash and unstoppable singular voice for a monstrous new world.Review Quotes:
"Bold and brazen and full of heart and downright hilarious at times. It rolls like a memory, harkening the greats of street poetry. Gwen is my favourite kind of poet, the kind with clear eyes that truly see other humans, renders them beautiful."
--katherena vermette, author of procession
"Canny, understated, moving."
--PEN Canada New Voices jury citation
"Plays in the highs and lows, the prayers and the slurs ... a brilliant collection ... draws the reader into a beautiful and fraught world."
--Plenitude
"Raw, beautiful, and unapologetically trans ... a collection that any working class person will see themselves reflected in."
--Lillie Reimer, Literati Bookstore (Ann Arbor, MI)
"Will make you cackle so heinously your roommate asks what you are choking on."
--South Broadway Press
"Delightfully rendered."
--Autostraddle
"Searing in every way."
--fifth wheel press
"In shelters, trainyards, & skeezy doctor's waiting rooms, Aube's poems sing and slang the tattered glories of tranny life and how we live it."
--imogen smith, author of stemmy things
"Equal parts funny and furious, private and protective, Gwen Aube's writing pushes our battered language right to its ecstatic, aesthetic edge ... Missed Connections with Tall Girls is serious, necessary work, but don't expect solemnity; Aube's book is a roaring good time."
--Alexander MacLeod, author of Light Lifting and Animal Person
"Excellent characters ... rich and adventurous ... a great read."
--The Needle
"WOW! Gwen Aube makes a speedway for poems, racing up your neck and into the mouth of your surprised, opening face! You think you know what's coming next? NO! HAHA! There is something incredible waiting for you here."
--CA Conrad, author of Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return