A survey of Canadian poetic form, with hundreds of examples past and present, "In Fine Form" features the work of Robert Service, Margaret Atwood, Molly Peacock, Leonard Cohen, George Elliott Clarke, and other noted poets. Canada's "form poetry" arises from the country's distinct geography and cultural mix, with subjects ranging from physical work ...
To This Cedar Fountain is that rare combination of poetry, painting and prose come together, making a bold and wonderful work of art. -- Small Press Magazine
This is an exploration of loose correspondence between one of Canada's greatest musicians, Glenn Gould, and 'K', an admiring fan. Braid weaves an intimate dynamic as K struggles with the loss of her hearing in one ear, finding her greatest comfort in Gould's music - particularly when he plays Bach. Gould's poems don't directly reply, but they do ...
In February 1930, Emily Carr and Georgia O'Keeffe met at an exhibition of O'Keeffe's paintings in New York. Inspired by the idea of a bond between these two powerful women painters, award-winning poet Kate Braid has expanded the momentary meeting into a passionate, revolutionary friendship. She begins by imagining Emily Carr as an unconventional ...
Winner of the Pat Lowther Award for Poetry, Kate Braid tracks the journey of a woman who wants, innocently enough, to build things. She explores the joy of physical labor and the struggle to be a tradeswoman in a "man's world."
In 1977 Kate Braid got her first job in construction as a labourer on a small island off the coast of British Columbia. Never in her wildest dreams did she plan to be a construction worker, much less a carpenter, but she was desperate to stay on the island and had run out of money, along with all the options a woman usually has for work secretary, ...
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