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Cooper is also a songwriter and performer. His solo musical projects include Rosedale and Songs for a Broken World. He divides his time between his ancestral home in Alma, New Brunswick and Riverview. Everything (Potterfield Press, 2023).
Allan Cooper has published 20 collections of poetry, including Everything We’ve Loved Comes Back to Find Us (Gaspereau Press, 2017), Waiting for the Small Ship of Desire (Pottersfield Press, 2020) and The Face of Everything (Pottersfield Press, 2023).
So I decided to turn to the short Chinese and Japanese forms, tanka and haiku, for inspiration. […] I would write a poem and then tinker with it for a couple of days. I am not a practicing Zen Buddhist, but I’m drawn to the tenets of Zen, especially satori, those glimpses of heightened awareness.
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I completed 16 poems in all. There is a sense of playfulness about them, the way they catch something and then let it go. I think of them now as little moments of illumination."
Look at the trophy I won this weekend! The NB Book Award for best poetry book in 2025! Thanks @gaspereaupress.bsky.social for being awesome publishers, thanks to judge @hollay.bsky.social, & to all my family & friends! What an honour to be shortlisted with friends @rsalazar.bsky.social & Nick Thran!
In a note included in the book, Allan says: "During Covid shutdown, I spoke with several of my poet friends about how they were coping with the isolation. We agreed that we found it difficult to complete projects of any substantial length.
