The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Poetry

The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Poetry PDF Author: Mark Callanan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781550814088
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 215

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Gathering the strongest poetry published by Newfoundlanders since the death of E.J. Pratt in 1964, The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Poetry features selections from twelve of the province's most impressive poets, including Al Pittman, Tom Dawe, Mary Dalton, John Steffler, Patrick Warner, and Ken Babstock. This groundbreaking anthology, with over forty years of poetry on display, celebrates the rousing and the rebirth of contemporary Newfoundland verse. - 20130114

The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Poetry

The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Poetry PDF Author: Mark Callanan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781550814088
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 215

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Book Description
Gathering the strongest poetry published by Newfoundlanders since the death of E.J. Pratt in 1964, The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Poetry features selections from twelve of the province's most impressive poets, including Al Pittman, Tom Dawe, Mary Dalton, John Steffler, Patrick Warner, and Ken Babstock. This groundbreaking anthology, with over forty years of poetry on display, celebrates the rousing and the rebirth of contemporary Newfoundland verse. - 20130114

Pathways of Creativity in Contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador

Pathways of Creativity in Contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador PDF Author: María Jesús Hernáez Lerena
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443883336
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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The Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador is a mythologized place that resonates with tragic adventure, polar expeditions and Grand Banks fishing; a real and imagined geography with an incredible artistic output that calls for critical discussion. This book examines the diversity of this province’s literature and culture, taking into consideration the expertise of scholars and writers who have first-hand knowledge of its unique context. Chapters on history, travel, fiction, autobiography, poetry, theatre, storytelling, filmmaking, and the visual arts provide an up-to-date survey across a broad range of artistic endeavours, as well as close readings of selected texts. The questions that fill the pages of Pathways of Creativity in Contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador arise from the awareness its contributors have of historically shared experiences, but also of shared delusions, and their essays provoke contemplation beyond the labels local/global, Newfoundlander/Come-From-Away. Aboriginal histories and writing come to the foreground in this panoramic view that balances descriptions of mainstream, vernacular and Indigenous cultural productions. The final chapter is organized as a multi-voiced interview which serves as a supplement to the academic essays. Here, themes are revisited and personalized as several writers express their feelings about what it means to be a Newfoundlander and an artist. As such, this book will encourage dialogue about Newfoundland and Labrador’s literary and artistic achievements within the international community of readers and researchers.

Thirty-for-sixty

Thirty-for-sixty PDF Author: Al Pittman
Publisher: Breakwater Books
ISBN: 9781550811544
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Book Description
The Newfoundland Poetry Series was begun in 1993 as Breakwater's twentieth anniversary project to honour and preserve the literary talents of our Newfoundland and Labrador poets. Selection is based on quality. Breakwater's aim is to make the series affordable to as many lovers of poetry as possible.

Down by Jim Long's Stage

Down by Jim Long's Stage PDF Author: Al Pittman
Publisher: Breakwater Books
ISBN: 9781550811636
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Book Description
Fishy rhyming "tail."

Contemporary Authors

Contemporary Authors PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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Gift Horse

Gift Horse PDF Author: Mark Callanan
Publisher: Vehicule Press
ISBN: 9781550653229
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Gift Horse, Mark Callanan's second full-length collection of poetry, was largely written following a near-fatal medical emergency in 2007. The poems offer up the story of a young man whose gratitude at being alive is undercut by Lazarus-like confusion and ambivalence. Brandishing a newly acute sense of mortality, Callanan emerges as an Atlantic flâneur stalked by terrifying sea legends, death-steeped domesticity (where even supermarket lobsters "weigh in against oblivion") and the extinct Newfoundland Wolf. Understated, sinister and unsettling, Gift Horse is a work of considerable craft and vision.

West Moon

West Moon PDF Author: Al Pittman
Publisher: Breakwater Books
ISBN: 9781550811230
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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West Moon is set in Newfoundland during the time of resettlement in the mid-1960s. Though the play explores some serious social, political, moral, and theological themes, it does so with a unique blend of pathos and humor. Though the characters are dead and subject to different degrees of despair, they come vigorously alive as we meet them, for a brief while, within the confines of their mortality. This is this first authorized publication of this work by one of Newfoundland's most highly regarded writers.

Dirty Birds

Dirty Birds PDF Author: Morgan Murray
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781550818086
Category : Bildungsromans
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In late 2008, as the world's economy crumbles and Barack Obama ascends to the White House, the remarkably unremarkable Milton Ontario - not to be confused with Milton, Ontario - leaves his parents' basement in Middle-of-Nowhere, Saskatchewan, and sets forth to find fame, fortune, and love in the Euro-lite electric sexuality of Montreal; to bask in the endless twenty-something Millennial adolescence of the Plateau; to escape the infinite flatness of Saskatchewan and find his messiah - Leonard Cohen. Hilariously ironic and irreverent, in Dirty Birds, Morgan Murray generates a quest novel for the twenty-first century-a coming-of-age, rom-com, crime-farce thriller-where a hero's greatest foe is his own crippling mediocrity as he seeks purpose in art, money, power, crime, and sleeping in all day.

Humanimus

Humanimus PDF Author: David Huebert
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781989287569
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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David Huebert?s?Humanimus?presents a world of soiled nature, of compromised ecology, of toxic transcendence. Raising environmental precarity to the level of mythos, this book?implicates readers in what Dominic Pettman calls the ?humanimalchine, ? where modern cyborg bodies are rewired and remixed with mechanical membranes and animal prostheses. Revelling in corporeal excess and industrial abjection, ?Humanimus?fans the ash of the human experiment to see what strange beauty might wilt and whimper there.

No Place for a Woman: The Life and Newfoundland Stories of Ella Manuel

No Place for a Woman: The Life and Newfoundland Stories of Ella Manuel PDF Author: Antony Berger
Publisher: Breakwater Books
ISBN: 9781550818369
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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As a young woman, the late Ella Manuel left the busy shipping community of Lewisporte, Newfoundland, for the wider world in the 1920s, but eventually returned to the island, as a single mother, to settle in Bonne Bay. An accomplished writer, broadcaster, journalist, advocate for peace, and staunch feminist, Manuel would leave an indelible mark on the culture she documented and celebrated in her work. Here, biographer Antony Berger expertly chronicles the life of Ella Manuel and incorporates unpublished radio scripts and brilliant extracts from her private journals to bring Manuel to the page in her own words. Brimming with insight and wit, No Place for a Woman? opens an illuminating window on life in twentieth-century Newfoundland, and preserves the work of a truly original Newfoundlander.