Candles in My Head
- Publisher
- Ekstasis Editions
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2001
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781896860831
- Publish Date
- Sep 2001
- List Price
- $14.95
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Description
Candles in My Head rips the cover off a woman’s experience of family life to expose the turbulent undercurrents hidden beneath the placid family portrait. Here is a poet exploring daily life with a magnifying glass, revealing shades of what remains out of sight the way an ultrasound reveals what lies within.
About the author
gillian harding-russell is a Regina poet who has been visiting her daughter in Yellowknife for the past four years. She has three previous poetry collections and several chapbooks published. In 2015, the sequence "Proud Men do not Listen" from In Another Air was shortlisted for Exile's Gwendolyn MacEwen Chapbook Award.