Existing Music Madeline Sonik Frogs in the Rain Barrel

Frogs in the Rain Barrel was runner-up for the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award in 1996

Johnston has bitten the head off a few weasels in his day

the final surrender

Beautiful Beautiful stakes out new ground in the literary scene

This first collection of poems thrives and opens words' weight and duration

Existing Music Madeline Sonik Frogs in the Rain BarrelDescription Trillium Book Award winner Nick Thran explores the companionship of wistful music in his fourth collection. The poems in Existing Music both celebrate and interrogate the idea of the sad song. The lyrical narrative mixes autobiographical poems with fantasies about the speakers favourite musiciansfrom the long gaps between one artists records, and grief over anothers suicide, to the marvelling at anothers ability to write beautiful songs