Romantic Mysteries and Thrillers and the things we're prepared

and the things we're prepared to die for

From Robert Seethaler

Like snowflakes

But most of all

perhaps the one they now realize changed the course of their life forever

Romantic Mysteries and Thrillers and the things we're preparedShortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry Longlisted for the 2023 E. J. Pratt Family Poetry Award A CBC Best Canadian Poetry Book of 2021 Drawing on Arthurian myth, the Romantic poets, the ill fated "Great War" efforts of the Newfoundland Regiment, modern parenthood, 16 bit video games, and Major League Baseball, these poems examine the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, both as individuals and as communities, in order to explain how