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Covering Rough Ground

by (author) Kate Braid

Publisher
Caitlin Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2014
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781927575499
    Publish Date
    Jan 2014
    List Price
    $16.95

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Description

Poems about Kate's early experience in construction.

About the author

Kate Braid worked as a receptionist, secretary, teacher’s aide, lumber piler, construction labourer, apprentice and journey-carpenter before finally “settling down”? as a teacher. She has taught construction and creative writing, the latter in workshops and also at SFU, UBC and for ten years at Vancouver Island University (previously Malaspina University-College). She is the author of A Well-Mannered Storm: The Glenn Gould Poems, Covering Rough Ground, To This Cedar Fountain and Inward to the Bones: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Journey with Emily Carr. In 2005 she co-edited, with Sandy Shreve, In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry. Braid’s second book of poems about her carpentry experiences, Turning Left to the Ladies, was published by Palimpsest Press. She lives in Burnaby, BC, with her partner.

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Awards

  • Winner, Pat Lowther Award for Best Book of Poetry by a Canadian Woman