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Hello Humpback! (Board book)
Roy Henry Vickers; Roy Henry Vickers, Robert Budd
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R269
R217
Discovery Miles 2 170
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Orca Chief (Hardcover)
Roy Henry Vickers, Robert Budd
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R576
R489
Discovery Miles 4 890
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Much-loved, cantankerous, and brilliant, Al Purdy galloped
across the Canadian literary landscape for decades, grandly
embodying the self-taught and hard-living image of the 1960s and
'70s poet. "The More Easily Kept Illusions: The Poetry of Al Purdy"
is a selection of thirty-five poems that includes some of his
best-loved and unearths lost and ignored treasures.
Robert Budde introduces the collection with an overview of
Purdy's tumultuous life of letters, his legendary personality, his
outrageous antics, his peers, his influences, and the history of
his publishing career. Reorganizing Purdy's body of work, this
collection also re-interprets the chronological and thematic
development of his writing. Choosing poems for a book like this is
necessarily an act of literary criticism and Budde takes care to
balance the various critical attentions that have structured the
historical responses to Purdy's work. The selected poems will mix
lesser-known gems with Purdy's greatest hits. Teachers,
poetry-lovers, students, and writers will rediscover Purdy's unique
voice. Those who are new to his work will get a full and rich sense
of the man some have called the last Canadian poet.
Also includes an Afterword by Russell Morton Brown.
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Misshapen (Paperback)
Robert Budde
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R336
R223
Discovery Miles 2 230
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One day in 1897, as the huge carnival big-top swooshed upward, a
child came flying out of the folds of the tent and landed softly in
the straw on the ground. This is Slip's story, and skilfully
illustrates the curiosity towards the human condition that exists
today as it did at the height of the turn-of-the-century
freak-show.
In a time when darkness covered the land, a boy named Weget is born
who is destined to bring the light. With the gift of a raven's skin
that allows him to fly as well as transform, Weget turns into a
bird and journeys from Haida Gwaii into the sky. There he finds the
Chief of the Heavens who keeps the light in a box. By transforming
himself into a pine needle, clever Weget tricks the Chief and
escapes with the daylight back down to Earth.
Vividly portrayed through the art of Roy Henry Vickers, Weget's
story has been passed down for generations. The tale has been
traced back at least 3,000 years by archeologists who have found
images of Weget's journey in petroglyphs on the Nass and Skeena
rivers. This version of the story originates from one told to the
author by Chester Bolton, Chief of the Ravens, from the village of
Kitkatla around 1975.
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Peace Dancer (Hardcover)
Roy Henry Vickers, Robert Budd
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R576
R489
Discovery Miles 4 890
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"In Muddy Water: Conversations with 11 Poets" documents the
connections and diversity of poetry coming out of an eclectic group
of Canadian poets. These poets range from established to emerging,
traditional to experimental, and the dialogue created between them
charts an expanse of themes and styles available to poetry readers.
Robert Kroetsch comments on the poetic: "We live in Muddy Water as
opposed to Clear Water. There is something there, but you only get
signals, you see a ripple." Poetry is a record of contemporary
language and, as such, provides a map of contemporary life; a torn
and muddied map, but a map nonetheless. "Muddy Water: Conversations
with 11 Poets" includes interviews with Robert Kroetsch, Dawne
McCance, Catherine Hunter, Duncan Mercredi, George Amabile, Patrick
Friesen, Todd Bruce, Melanie Cameron, Dennis Cooley, Jon Paul
Fiorentino, and Mira Cook.
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