The book is rooted in PEI but moves from there to Toronto where the malaise of life proves to be unbound to the sameness of small-town days spent hauling gear on the Atlantic or toiling in rust-red potato fields
impoverished days in a war-stricken Ukraine
" Denham's brilliant long poem painstakingly laying out the natural beauty and geography of the small coastal town he grew up in and its transformation into "Memories rippling/ On the periphery of vision between clean new buildings
In poetic terms
Winner Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize -- BC Book Prize (2016)
Fake It So Real Délani Valin The book is rooted inDescription Fake It So Real takes on the fallout from a punk rock lifestylethe future of no futureand its effect on the subsequent generations of one family. In June of 1983, Gwen, a gnarly Nancy Spungen look alike, meets Damian, the enigmatic leader of a punk band. Seven years and two unplanned pregnancies later, Damian abandons Gwen, leaving her to raise their two daughters, Sara and Meg, on her own. The voices of Gwen, Sara and Meg weave a raw and