The Program

Awards:   Short-listed for Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize 2023 (Canada) Winner of Fred Cogswell Award For Excellence In Poetry Third Place 2023 (Canada)
Author:   Megan Fennya Jones
Publisher:   Goose Lane Editions
ISBN:  

9781773102528


Pages:   80
Publication Date:   27 September 2022
Format:   Paperback
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The Program


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Awards

  • Short-listed for Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize 2023 (Canada)
  • Winner of Fred Cogswell Award For Excellence In Poetry Third Place 2023 (Canada)

Overview

Third Place Winner, Fred Cogswell Award For Excellence In Poetry Finalist, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize In this powerful, intimate collection, a young woman travels between Paris and New York to pursue a career in modelling. Alternating between the world of fashion, where “it’s no longer enough / that the sample size fits,” and the eponymous Program, a place to “discover / what’s underneath,” Jones’s debut collection pulls the reader deep into the realms of psychiatric care and romantic relationships and probes a long tradition of female suffering. Taking inspiration from New York school poets such as Frank O’Hara, Jones employs an unadorned and at times funny narrative style that also calls to mind the work of Sheila Heti and Sally Rooney. Summoning images from the worlds of fashion, art, and therapy, and exploring the allure of pain and of suffering, The Program is a compelling debut about how we are seen, and how we see ourselves.

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Author:   Megan Fennya Jones
Publisher:   Goose Lane Editions
Imprint:   Goose Lane Editions
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 0.60cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.118kg
ISBN:  

9781773102528


ISBN 10:   1773102524
Pages:   80
Publication Date:   27 September 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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The Program has a cutting, deceptively breezy sincerity, like the wind full of needles. With a crafted effortlessness, Jones pins down the grotesquely gendered experience of being seen and acted upon as a beautiful object in the world. These poems not only probe the meaning of being (or being used as) a model, but they also transform the noun into a verb -- refashioning the narrative around sickness, pain, healing, and survival while letting girls keep their imperfect, messy humanity. - Domenica Martinello, author of All Day I Dream about Sirens - 20220708 A lyric Kunstlerroman that explodes inherited scripts about art and suffering. Megan Fennya Jones flickers between worldly glamour and harrowing interiority with deadpan humour and hard-earned wisdom. Parisian museums and the highways of Spain contrast with psychiatric worksheets and sad girls in sweatpants, while Jones's poetry explores the embodied toll of femininity with terrifying lucidity. - Adele Barclay, author of Renaissance Normcore - 20220708 Each poem reads like a body that we come to examine, transport within, and sometimes float away from. Poetry that breaks down the modelling world to show bodies as commodities, as flesh, as suits, but always returning us to the person being photographed and the psychological effects of the industry. - Daniel Zomparelli, founder of Poetry Is Dead magazine - 20220708 I adore this book, its narrative, its voice, its struggle. Jones tells a familiar story of the body being used, with some complicity and ambition on the part of the body's owner, but as the poems go on, the divide between the body and the voice grows. The craft and care of the poems returns to the thoughts now, and the thoughts then, even as it unspools its speaker's glamorous and unglamorous travels. The Program attains a different beauty, more enduring than a photo shoot. - Ed Skoog, author of Travellers Leaving the City - 20220708


"""The Program has a cutting, deceptively breezy sincerity, like the wind full of needles. With a crafted effortlessness, Jones pins down the grotesquely gendered experience of being seen and acted upon as a beautiful object in the world. These poems not only probe the meaning of being (or being used as) a model, but they also transform the noun into a verb -- refashioning the narrative around sickness, pain, healing, and survival while letting girls keep their imperfect, messy humanity."" - Domenica Martinello, author of All Day I Dream about Sirens - 20220708 ""A lyric Künstlerroman that explodes inherited scripts about art and suffering. Megan Fennya Jones flickers between worldly glamour and harrowing interiority with deadpan humour and hard-earned wisdom. Parisian museums and the highways of Spain contrast with psychiatric worksheets and sad girls in sweatpants, while Jones's poetry explores the embodied toll of femininity with terrifying lucidity."" - Adèle Barclay, author of Renaissance Normcore - 20220708 ""Each poem reads like a body that we come to examine, transport within, and sometimes float away from. Poetry that breaks down the modelling world to show bodies as commodities, as flesh, as suits, but always returning us to the person being photographed and the psychological effects of the industry."" - Daniel Zomparelli, founder of Poetry Is Dead magazine - 20220708 ""I adore this book, its narrative, its voice, its struggle. Jones tells a familiar story of the body being used, with some complicity and ambition on the part of the body's owner, but as the poems go on, the divide between the body and the voice grows. The craft and care of the poems returns to the thoughts now, and the thoughts then, even as it unspools its speaker's glamorous and unglamorous travels. The Program attains a different beauty, more enduring than a photo shoot."" - Ed Skoog, author of Travellers Leaving the City - 20220708"


Author Information

Megan Fennya Jones’s poetry has appeared in publications across North America including Poetry Northwest, Room Magazine, and PRISM International, in the anthology The City Series Number One: Vancouver, and the chapbook Normal Women. She lives in Vancouver.

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