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<p><strong >The sixth and, on the surface, most peculiar poetry collection from Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Michael Crummey.</strong><br> <br> Eclectic, unpredictable, and strange, <em >Passengers</em> follows Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer on an imagined circumnavigation of Newfoundland; traces the island escapades of Lucifer from the time of his arrival as a stowaway in the Middle Ages; and wanders the pre-pandemic cities of Europe, touching down in Stockholm’s ABBA museum, the Belfast Public Library, Austria’s plague cemeteries, and the Czech Republic’s Punkva Caves.</p> <p>Widely considered “one of Canada’s finest writers” (<em >Globe and Mail</em>), Crummey is noted for the immediacy and emotional impact of his poetry and fiction and for his ability to raise the vernacular to planes of “exquisite beauty.”<br> </p> <p>Part travelogue, part archeological dig, <em >Passengers</em> is an eccentric guide to the wild geography, folklore, and misbegotten history of the human heart.</p>