The Debt. Andreae Callanan

The Debt

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Title: The debt : poems / Andreae Callanan.

Names: Callanan, Andreae, 1977- author.

Description: Poems.

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20210122528 | Canadiana (ebook) 20210122587 | ISBN 9781771964173 (softcover) | ISBN 9781771964180 (ebook)

Classification: LCC PS8605.A45 D43 2021 | DDC C811/.6—dc23

Edited by Luke Hathaway

Copyedited by Emily Donaldson

Cover and interior illustration: “Water Carrier I” by Diana Daly. Used by permission of the artist.

Text and cover designed by Christina Angeli

Published with the generous assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country, and the financial support of the Government of Canada. Biblioasis also acknowledges the support of the Ontario Arts Council (OAC), an agency of the Government of Ontario, which last year funded 1,709 individual artists and 1,078 organizations in 204 communities across Ontario, for a total of $52.1 million, and the contribution of the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit and Ontario Creates.

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