This collection focuses on physical experience and contemplates the beauty of everyday life – the objects, the stories, and the people that drift in and out. It finds the extraordinary in the ordinary.
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Of Love and Drowning
Of Love and Drowning is a commentary on the pre-cariousness of human existence, using a variety of real and imaginary voices to explore childhood, love, despair, aging, death and the reaffirmation of life. Reviews "Christie...
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Where Genesis Begins
Where Genesis Begins is a collaboration of two of Newfoundland’s foremost artists: Tom Dawe, a profoundly visual poet, and Gerald Squires, a profoundly poetic painter. The book contains thirty-seven poems by Dawe,...
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Feral Domicile – Sonnets
A figure journeys through his old city, speaking sonnets - some from memory, some from contemporary condition and relationship with his place. He has no way to return home. He is in exile. Reviews "There is...
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The Last Will and Testament of Jon Martinez de Larrume
The Last Will and Testament of Jon Martinez de Larrume explores Labrador South and the people who were drawn to its resources and wild beauty from the 1500s to the present day. From one of the first wills written...
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The Cyclic Variations – and more new poems
The Newfoundland Poetry Series began in 1993, to honour and preserve the literary talents of our Newfoundland and Labrador poets. Breakwater's aim is to make the series affordable to as many lovers of poetry...
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The March Hare Anthology
The March Hare Anthology commemorates twenty years of one of Canada's most successful literary festivals. Blending international writers with some of the best Newfoundland and Labrador writers and musicians,...
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Around the Red Land – Newfoundland Poetry Series
These poems span the gamut of life from love to death; a eulogy for a people, who for the most part, are no longer with us. Their evolution in rural Newfoundland has taken hundreds of years, and there is a good...
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Come By Chance – Newfoundland Poetry Series
Come-By-Chance is a collection of poems, often narrative, sometimes lyrical, always ruminative, about home, family, and place, about leaving and returning, about growing up and growing old, about leaving Newfoundland...
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A Painter’s Poems
A Painter’s Poems comprises poetry that Pratt has written over the past 50 years, echoing his career as a painter. They are autobiographical “pages from a diary.” They respond to encounters with people, places,...
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