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A classic work of Canadian nature and wildlife — updated and reissued with a new design and afterword by the author.
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{"id":6814259413051,"title":"The 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology","handle":"the-2017-griffin-poetry-prize-anthology","description":"\u003cp\u003eEach year, the best books of poetry published in English internationally and in Canada are honoured with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious and richest literary awards. Since 2001 this annual prize has tremendously spurred interest in and recognition of poetry, focusing worldwide attention on the formidable talent of poets writing in English and works in translation. Each year \u003cem\u003eThe Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e features the work of the extraordinary poets shortlisted for the awards and introduces us to some of the finest poems in their collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoyalties generated from The 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology will be donated to UNESCO’s World Poetry Day, which was created to support linguistic diversity through poetic expression and to offer endangered languages the opportunity to be heard in their communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShortlist announced: April 11, 2017\u003cbr\u003eReadings: June 7, 2017\u003cbr\u003ePrizes awarded: June 8, 2017\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-24T09:40:34-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-23T13:26:35-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Poetry","Edited by Goyette Sue","Edited by Naviyuk Kane Joan","Edited by Szirtes George","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2017-06-03","The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40206690484283,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487002329","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1995,"weight":240,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487002329","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[],"quantity_rule":{"min":1,"max":null,"increment":1}}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_ca7771cc-57c0-4d7f-9852-43dba5039600.jpg?v=1655627589"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_ca7771cc-57c0-4d7f-9852-43dba5039600.jpg?v=1655627589","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22243458777147,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.672,"height":2550,"width":1713,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_ca7771cc-57c0-4d7f-9852-43dba5039600.jpg?v=1655627589"},"aspect_ratio":0.672,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_ca7771cc-57c0-4d7f-9852-43dba5039600.jpg?v=1655627589","width":1713}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eEach year, the best books of poetry published in English internationally and in Canada are honoured with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious and richest literary awards. Since 2001 this annual prize has tremendously spurred interest in and recognition of poetry, focusing worldwide attention on the formidable talent of poets writing in English and works in translation. Each year \u003cem\u003eThe Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e features the work of the extraordinary poets shortlisted for the awards and introduces us to some of the finest poems in their collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoyalties generated from The 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology will be donated to UNESCO’s World Poetry Day, which was created to support linguistic diversity through poetic expression and to offer endangered languages the opportunity to be heard in their communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShortlist announced: April 11, 2017\u003cbr\u003eReadings: June 7, 2017\u003cbr\u003ePrizes awarded: June 8, 2017\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Buddy and Earl Go to School
Buddy and Earl know that with the right education they can become anything! So they eagerly gather their silly, smelly supplies and head to school.
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ages 4
to 7
/ grades K
to 2
And So It Goes
A simple, charming reflection on the cycle of life.
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Passing Ceremony
A wedding reception becomes a gothic dream. The bride is not all she seems and there is something ambiguous about the groom.
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Legalizing weed doesn't mean that living on a secret, family-run grow-op is easy, especially when your new girlfriend is the daughter of a cop.
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The Mosaic
A teenaged pacifist and a PTSD-afflicted Marine form an unexpected bond over a secret buried in a decommissioned nuclear missile silo.
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The Curiosity Cabinet
The pictorial memoir of children's book author and illustrator Ian Wallace.
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Norma
A spellbinding new novel set in present-day Helsinki about a woman with a fantastical secret who is trying to solve the mystery of her mother’s death.
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Miss Leonard volunteered all her free time to the Mission and consequently had a proprietary attitude. She called everyone folks: the old timers sipping coffee and playing checkers in the dining room, the born-agains who came for breakfast and stayed for Christ, the teenage boys with their wire hanger shoulder blades angling through their “Born to Rock” T-shirts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSometimes a woman would sidle or shuffle or strut into the Mission, her gait keeping pace with her disposition; the coin tosses of bravado or despondency that saw her through her days. Singly, or in spindly little groups, the women would wait in line at the lunch counter, their hunger for food or companionship rendering them bold. And they were folks, too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive or six men were idling outside the Mission when Annunciata arrived, a thin brown girl clutching at the balloon-string of her occasional buoyancy. The snow had finally rotted away, winter rushing through the gutters and gurgling down the drains. A couple of the men were smoking, coaxing a last puff from their burnt-down cigarettes, holding each breath until their eyes bulged. The Mission opened its doors to the city’s jobless, the street people, the panhandlers, the squeegee kids, the homeless ones, although once, when Annunciata had wondered aloud at these poor doorstep ghosts, the Senior Admin. had corrected her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“We don’t say homeless here, Anna. We say ‘persons experiencing homelessness.’” Senior Admin. was a stocky girl with a permanent furrow above her brow. A little asterisk in the arid homelessness of her face, although what it bore witness to, Annunciata couldn’t exactly say.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Experiencing homelessness” was meant to convey the temporariness of the condition, the vagrant hope that poverty was merely a refugee camp on the way to permanent citizenship. A waystation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Morning, Isaac, Donny, Bodo,” Annunciata called, stepping through the men who obligingly allowed her passage, sucking back their smoke and paddling at the air in front of them. “Morning, Nachos and Mr. Wilson.” Weary of being told what not to call the Mission people, Annunciata had decided to learn as many names as she could and use them accordingly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Morning Mr… Um.” His name wasn’t really Um but the old fellow was uncooperative when asked, and Mr. Um was the best she could do. Annunciata thought that perhaps he was secretive about his name because it was the only thing he owned. On the other hand, maybe he’d just forgotten it—drink did that to a fellow, and crack, and the dog-eyed loneliness that eats its own paws. His eyes were yellowish and his few remaining teeth were grayish. He never smiled and seldom spoke, but when he was hungry he rapped out a shave and a shoeshine on the metal shutters of the kitchen window, and when he was feeling perky he did a soft shoe shuffle in the dust.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnnunciata stopped to watch and applaud. “Bravo!” she clapped. Mr. Um made jazz hands and blew her a purposeful kiss. He had a heavy, stumbling gait but a perfect pitch for imaginary music. “Nice weather we’re having,” Annunciata replied.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Pizza, chicken,” he confided. Something like that. But Annunciata thought he said “pizza,” and then some other kind of food. Possibly chicken. It was going on nine and she had to hustle to report for kitchen duty. So did.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Heavens, child, I’m glad we’re not waiting for you to make any big announcements,” said Miss Leonard when Annunciata came into the kitchen shrugging off her jacket and tying an apron around her waist. She meant the miracle of the Lord’s birth which, if she was an angel, Annunciata would have been in charge of. Sometimes Miss Leonard said, “Hallelujah, young lady!” and sometimes just, “Hurry, you!” but it was always to do with Annunciata being half a minute behindhand and two thousand years too late.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe novel is a departure from her previous works, both of which were set in South Africa, her home country. It is set in a city inspired by Winnipeg, where she has resided for some time now.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis title is very much in the tradition of Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout, it weaves the intersecting stories of a town into one narrative, one that is equally hopeful and haunting.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe novel is by turns funny and affecting, with a wide range of eclectic characters, from a middle-class family to teenagers attending the local high school to the elderly who are witness to the passage of time and to the rites of passage every life goes through.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCook’s website is http:\/\/www.meiracook.com\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHorn Book\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“Meira Cook . . . writes prose so fluid, so effortless, so vivid, you’re swept away on its sheer beauty and power. . . . Once More With Feeling manages to be both sharp and tender, tragic and fiercely funny, and wholly satisfying.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A look at the interconnected lives in one small prairie city, and how their relationships evolve over the course of a year.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_2":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeCode_2":"04","PrizeName_0":"Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award","PrizeName_1":"The Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction","PrizeName_2":"McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award","PrizeYear_0":"2017","PrizeYear_1":"2017","PrizeYear_2":"2017","ProductFormDescription":"Digital Audio, MP3","PublicationDate":"2017-09-23","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A look at the interconnected lives in one small prairie city, and how their relationships evolve over the course of a year.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Once More with Feeling
A look at the interconnected lives in one small prairie city, and how their relationships evolve over the course of a year.
