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Eastword, September/October 2004imPRESSed!: The newest titles by WFNS members
The Killing Ear is a collection of odd and sinister tales which celebrate the creative resilience of madness and mistrust all versions of the status quo. Written in a prose that is by turns lush, intimate, and ironic, the book offers readers eight provocative tales of the mind. Penned by a practicing psychoanalyst Marike Finlay-de Monchy, and illustrated by artist and child psychiatrist Jaswant Guzder, this bok is anything but a collection of case studies. The Killing Ear narrates the unsettling, and often torturous brilliance of the unconscious through various gothic, psychotic, neurotic, paranoid and archaic proliferations. A practicing psychoanalyst for fifteen years, Marike Finlay de Monchy is the director and owner of Quoddy's Run, a small press and cultural center located on Nova Scotia's under-developed Eastern Shore. The author of numerous scholarly works, Marike has recently finished a novel entitled The Jam Principle, as well as a few shorter works.
Greg Cook celebrates his long career as a poet with this newest book, the Selected Poems. As he will tell you, in a way all poems become love poems and art, like love, is an act of faith. If this is the case, this book transcends the ordinary and takes us into the extraordinary experience of being alive. As one of three poets in his immediate family, Cook has made writers and their survival a professional and personal study, which includes his biography of a close friend of twenty years, One Heart One Way/Alden Nowlan: a writers’ life, undertaken following a two-year appointment as writer-in-residence at the University of Waterloo. Cooks’ Songs of the Wounded offers new poems as well as selections from his previous five books, including Untying the Tongue (Black Moss Press, 2002).
“ In the tradition of the eighteenth-century English artist William Blake, who painted, wrote about, and self-published his visions of spirituality and angels, Canadian artist and writer Geoff Butler uses angel imagery in his paintings, poems, songs, and short stories. Far from being irrelevant in these sophisticated times, Geoff Butler’s angels symbolize a spiritual dimension that he feels must be present, in some form at least, for a fulfilling life and for any real, lasting solutions to problems, from the personal to the global.” Geoff Butler is a visual artist, writer, and book illustrator. In his work, he often uses humour, particularly satire, as part of his artistic arsenal. He lives and works in a small village of Granville Ferry.
John William Smith clears land, builds a one-room house, plants three apple trees, then sits down to sip his tea and watch the sunset. After many sunsets alone, John William decides he needs a wife. He marries the wonderful Annie. As time passes, John William expands their home to accommodate children, an injured cousin, a widowed sister, and many more additions to the family. His toolbox is never far from his side, waiting for the next time Annie will say, “John William, dear, I think we need.…” Will the house ever be complete? Based on the true story of John William and Annie Smith,
who lived in Cape Breton, in the 1800s, this is a warm and witty look
at what makes a home and who makes up a family.
It seems the rain outside will never stop as storming winds pound the windowpanes. But dark clouds are no match for a resourceful bear with an unlimited imagination and a thirst to see the world. On the wings of his fancy, Bear travels the globe to find joy, music, and passion wherever he lands. His colourful journey and touching relationship with Writer will ingnite the dreams of readers both young and old – a perfect cure for the rainy-day blues. Writer and former fiction editor of the Pottersfield Portfolio, Maureen Hull lives on Pictou Island, NS. She is the author of Righteous Living (Turnstone Press, 1999), a collection of short stories which was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award for short fiction.
“He was supposed to say , ‘You’re my Bitsiest bestiest friend’, but every time he got to that ‘bestiest’ part, his mouth jammed open and his little pink tongue slipped out the side. He looked so human I couldn’t believe it. It was like he was gagging on it or something.” Telly Mercher is shy and quiet, used to living in the shadow of her older sister, Bess. Then she finds herself on a set of a puppet show, staying out of the way of her overstressed aunt Kathleen. One evening she makes a surprising discovery that launches her an adventure with an unpredictable and angry puppet. Prior to writing books for children and young adults, Vicki Grant was a television script writer who worked on a numerous children’s TV productions including Theodore Tugboat, Big Comfy Couch and Sesame Park. She lives with her family in Halifax.
Turtle Rescue covers the conservation efforts of governments, scientists, conservationists and turtle lovers. It explains a range of threats to turtle populations and what is being done to protect them. For example, the leatherback turtle will mistakenly eat discarded plastic grocery bags thinking it’s a jellyfish – a staple in the leatherback diet. Properly disposing of household trash is the solution and something everyone can do. Other measures include protecting nesting grounds, turtle farming and captive breeding, and persuading other people that medicine made from turtles is of questionable worth. Originally from Mississauga, ON, Pamela Hickman began a freelance writing career fifteen years ago and has published over 28 books to date. In 1992 she moved to Canning, NS, with her husband and three daughters, and divides her time between her writing, family and volunteer work in her community.
For centuries the Mi'kmaq, and later the early European
explorers and settlers, shortened their journeys between the Bras
d'Or lake and the Atlantic Ocean by means of the narrow isthmus at
St. Peter's. This portage area —eventually a canal — became
a haul-over road in the mid-1650s. The portage area and the surrounding
shores and waterways of Cape Breton were sites of early and prolonged
interaction between the French and the Mi'kmaq. Highland
Rogue Ewan Geddes had once sent Claire's girlish heart racing... But that was back when he was a servant and she the laird's awkward daughter. Now he'd returned, an upstart fortune hunter bent on her sister, and Claire Talbot swore she would stop any heartbreak before it started, even if that meant tempting away a man who'd only grown decidedly more appealing. Claire Talbot had to be the most exasperating woman in England or Scotland, Ewan decided. And she stood between him and the bride he wanted! Or did she? For her grace and fire made him yearn that every day be an adventure and every night a dream come true! Highland Rogue is Deborah Hale's twelfth Harlequin Historical. She lives with her husband and four children in Lower Sackville. For more information on Deborah's books or tips on writing genre fiction, visit her website http://www.deborahhale.com
Peuple d’origine française du Canada, les Acadians furent expulses de leurs terres par les Anglais en 1755. Les faits sont connus mais dans Eulalie La Tour, Alfred Silver raconte l’historie du bouleversement d’une famille et du soldat qui les a trahis avant de les sauver. L’auteur n’est pas britannique et il n’y a ici aucun parti pris pour l’empire britannique àl’origine de la deportation massive de ce people. Au fil de ses recherches, Alfred Silver s’est passionné pour cet événement historique à propos duquel on trouve peu de documents et d’archives sur le quotidian et l’historie personelle des individus concernés. Auteur de renom, Alfred Silver a publié un nombre important d’ouvrageshistoriques, don’t les romans Red River Trilogy et Acadia, qui lui a valu le prix Thomas Raddall. Il vit à Ardoise, en Nouvelle-Écosse.
Edouard Beaupre of Willow Bunch, Saskatchewan, would grow to be the tallest man in the world but no one could have predicted the bizarre path that his life would take, nor that his body would travel for 83 years after his death. From sorcery in New France, witch hunting in Ontario and the wizardry of "magic fingers" that revived the economy of an Eastern Ontario town, this book tells the story of little-known Canadians who made a unique contribution to the history of Canada.Johanna Bertin is a freelance writer who lives in Smithfield, New Brunswick. Long fascinated with the quirky and the different, her articles have appeared in magazines and newspapers across the country.
Whereverville is a dramatic stage play about a single, decisive night in the life of a Newfoundland community facing government resettlement. Thematically, the play explores various notions of "home" -- is home a bedrock-rooted creation of geography and genealogy... or can home exist as a state of mind? Dragging Newfoundland kicking and screaming into the
20th century (a quote attributed to Joey Smallwood), resettlement
was a carrot-and-stick approach to depopulating the rovince's fishing
outports. Communities were encouraged to abandon themselves in exchange
for financial aid and the promise of better services in centralized
growth towns. Between 1954 and 1975, the Federal and Provincial governments
brought about the move of over 300 communities and 30,000 people.
Whereverville is a work of fiction and its setting, the imaginary
community of Loam Bay, does not appear on any map. Tellingly,
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The
Killing Ear
Songs
of the Wounded: new and selected poems.
The Look of Angels
Making
Room
Rainy
Days with Bear
The
Puppet Wrangler
Turtle
Rescue: Changing the Future for Endangered Wildlife
Eulalie
La Tour: Acadie 1755