Existing Music Product Form:Paperback / softback one that is intended to

one that is intended to take you out of your complacency by challenging your expectations

The last story

Bowling's vision

groundwater & glaciers / listen for the salty pulse within

"McMillan works to deromanticize the small community

Existing Music Product Form:Paperback / softback one that is intended toDescription 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