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Circle Tour

Circle Tour

Circle Tour, Eva Tihanyi’s ninth poetry collection, seeks and celebrates beauty in the face of despondency. Its three sections—Outer Circle, Inner Circle, Centre—draw us in as we move from the “outside” world of politics, culture and art to the “inside” world of relationships with family, friends and lovers to the “core” world of the self.

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Eva Tihanyi

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Eva Tihanyi

Circle Tour is Eva Tihanyi’s ninth book of poetry. Her last book, The Largeness of Rescue, won a Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry.
She has also published a short story collection, Truth and Other Fictions, which The Globe and Mail hailed as “an impressive and promising debut…a wonderfully written collection of takes on the elusiveness of truth.”

"In Circle Tour Eva Tihanyi not only poses the question, what does it mean to make art and meaning in an uncertain world? she pulls us into this question and the act of questioning. “The artist is more than present” in these poems, but—more than that—we are invited to be present too. A journey through the concentric circles of Tihanyi’s carefully structured book is a coming-to-presence. Circle Tour is a powerful collection that challenges us to rethink the nature and potential of lyric poetry as a mode of human contact and imaginative response."
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Johanna Skibsrud
Author of The Description of the World (poetry), The Poetic Imperative: A Speculative Aesthetics (essays), and the novel The Sentimentalists (winner of the Giller Prize)
“…wise, accomplished…”
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Elizabeth Greene
Author of A Season Among Psychics and Understudies
A lyrical, big-hearted celebration of what it takes to remain whole and hopeful, come what may.
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Rona Maynard,
Author of My Mother’s Daughter and former Editor of Chatelaine
“…eloquent…”
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Karen Shenfeld
Author of To Measure the World
Eva Tihanyi has done for stalwart love what Sylvia Plath did for despair. She examines it from every angle. She chronicles pain she has suffered in the past, and then does a stellar job of recounting how she left it behind. Circle Tour is erudite, uplifting, and completely honest.
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Catherine Gildiner
Author of Good Morning, Monster and the three-volume memoir Too Close to the Falls, After the Falls, and Coming Ashore
Circle Tour is exquisite. So many times I resisted turning a page, needing to remain with a single poem for a day. Two days. Three. However long it took for the lines to change the way I see.
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Darcie Friesen Hossack
Commonwealth Writers’ Prize nominee and Managing Editor of WordCity Literary Journal.

When Lightning Strikes the River

Pen and Paper
Storm
Piano

In 2018 Tihanyi and composer / musician Carlie Howell received a Canada Council Explore and Create grant for their collaboration When Lightning Strikes the River, a song cycle of 14 new works. Eva wrote the lyrics and Carlie composed the music. The result (performed by Carlie and a group of musicians) premiered at the Tranzac Club in Toronto on April 28, 2019.

Tickets go on sale: September 6, 2023 at 10:00 AM


FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre presents
When Lightning Strikes the River
The Electric Storm Collective

Performance: Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023 4:00 PM

Other Books

The Largeness of Rescue

The Largeness of Rescue

Flying Underwater

Flying Underwater

In the Key of Red

In the Key of Red

Truth and Other Fictions

Truth and Other Fictions

Eva Tihanyi Reads from Circle Tour

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Eva Tihanyi

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