This new collection of poems tells the story of 150 years as a country, recreating historical events through the vivid, concrete, human element of our poets' responses to them. Judy Gaudet has collected poems that tell our story in a unique way: through the personal passions and concerns of artists who offer a range of encounters and attitudes. The poets represent a wide variety of Canadian experience: Indigenous, immigrant, and people from every part of the country and period of our history providing a solid representation of Canadian diversity. Poems come from many significant Canadian poets, as well as some lesser known and emerging poets and folk writers.

This journey through the works of our greatest poets and thier reflections on their experiences of the events that have shaped Canada, and continue to shape Canada, provide an exciting and lasting addition to our sense of who we are and where we've been, and gives us a basis on which to think about our attitudes and directions for the future.

150: Canada's History in Poems provides Canadians with an alternative history to the one they read about in textbooks. Looking at our history through the eyes of our artists is not only enlightening, but can give insight into the powerful truths of our past.

A native of Prince Edward Island, Judy Gaudet works as a teacher and librarian in Charlottetown. Her poems have appeared in blueSHIFT, The Gaspereau Review, and ContemporaryVerse2; anthologized in The Poets of Prince Edward Island, Landmarks, and A Bountiful Harvest; and broadcast on CBC Radio's Live Poets Society.

Her Teeth are Stones is her first full-length poetry book, following her chapbook Poems, you say, published by Saturday Morning Chapbooks. The mother of three grown daughters, she lives in Belfast, PEI, with her partner, David Helwig.

Visit her website at www.judygaudet.weebly.com.

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