All In Together
Rhymes, Ditties and Jingles of Newfoundland and Labrador
- Publisher
- Boulder Publications, Boulder Books
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2009
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780978338190
- Publish Date
- Aug 2009
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
A wonderful collection of ditties and rhymes, as well as lullabies, jingles, parodies, and proverbs. Robin McGrath has assembled the shouts and sayings of several generations, collected from backyards, kitchens, and school rooms. She also documents where the verses come from and what they mean.
About the author
Robin McGrath is the author or editor of fifteen books, including Trouble and Desire (1995), Escaped Domestics (1998), Hoist Your Sails and Run (1999), Donovan's Station (2002),Covenant of Salt (2005), and Livyers World(2007). She has published over two hundred pieces in magazines such as Beaver, Inuit Art Quarterly, Parchment, TickleAce, Fiddlehead and Room of One's Own.
She is an occasional contributer to CBC Radio, has written and narrated three video scripts, had her first play staged in 2002, and is currently the non-fiction columnist for the St. John's newspaper The Telegram.
Robin was born in Newfoundland and lives in Labrador with her husband, provincial court judge, John Joy. She is a member of The Writers Union of Canada and the Letterset Association of Newfoundland and Labrador.
