Bogman's Music
- Publisher
- Anvil Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2001
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781895636376
- Publish Date
- Sep 2001
- List Price
- $9.95
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Nominee, Governor General's Award (youngest person to be nominated for a GG)
Winner, Alfred G Bailey Award for Poetry (New Brunswick)
Section from Bogman's Music shortlisted for the Acorn Rukeyser Chapbook Contest
Bogman's Music is a debut collection of poetry that is both elegiac and sensitive in its exploration of family dynamics, the enduring power of childhood experience, and the healing ability of faith and love.
Praise for Bogman's Music:
"This collection of lyric poetry is a startingly beautiful debut, both exhilaratingly personable and incandescently detailed in its imagery. This work offers an astonishingly deft vision of natural and human environments, and experiences passionately lived." (Canada Council Governor General's Award Jury Comments)
"Tammy Armstrong's first collection of poems establishes a strong lyrical (predominantly first-person) voice that transforms biography through illumination of the cracks, crags, and roughness of human relationships and experience." (Canadian Literature)
"These are lovely poems, heartfelt, mature, searching and visceral ... teeming with stunning images and metaphors ... inventive and apt writing graces the entire manuscript." (Tim Bowling, author of Low Water Slack, Dying Scarlet, The Thin Smoke of the Heart)
About the author
Tammy Armstrong grew up in St. Stephen, New Brunswick and lived in Vancouver, BC for several years, where she earned a BA and an MFA from the University of British Columbia. She currently lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Armstrong has two books of poetry published with Anvil Press: Unravel and Bogman's Music (a Governor General's Literary Award nominee). Her poems have appeared in the following publications: The Antigonish Review, Event, The Fiddlehead, Grain, The Malahat Review, Pottersfield Portfolio, Prairie Fire, Room of One's Own, subTerrain, TickleAce, and Zygote. “A Proper Burial for Song Birds” placed third in the League of Canadian Poets' National Poetry Contest, Vintage 2000. “If In a Marriage to a Car Salesman” and “Clam Bake 1974” were performed on International Women's Day 2000 at the National Art Gallery.