Psalms of Bone & Sinew

By Mr Peter Cantelon

Entitled Psalms of Bone & Sinew this collection of poetry is meant to evoke the messy reality that is life (at least life as lived by the author) evoking the idea of psalms as words lifted in praise and grief, horror and wonder.

Most of his poems are free verse with a mix of rhyming and what he calls free-rhyme (a mix of free verse and rhyme in a single poem). Cantelon's influences have been many and diverse including but not limited to Margaret Atwood, Irving Layton, Sappho, Charles Bukowski, Edgar Allan Poe, John Donne, and more recently international poets such as Japanese poet Kenji Miyazawa, Persian poet Forough Farrokhzad, Rupi Kaur, Noor Hindi and Amanda Gorman.

His poems have been published in various and sundry journals and magazines including Poetry Scotland, Synaesthesia, Bricolage, Geez and the award-winning Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts.

Cantelon started writing poetry early in life when he was discovering amazing writers at the Bookshelf Caf in Guelph, Ontario where he first heard the great Canadian author Timothy Findley read (and got his first author's signed copy of a book). Cantelon has had a passion for writing and poetry that has lasted his entire life (so far). If there is a single, uninterrupted thread in his experience it is writing.

Cantelon lives with his wife Megan in Morden, Manitoba, Canada where he is as an award-winning newspaper columnist and executive director of the non-profit The Jubilee Fund.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0B8BPD9FG
• ISBN13: 9798843738105
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"