Covering Rough Ground
- Publisher
- Caitlin Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2014
- Category
- Canadian
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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.
Awards
- Winner, Pat Lowther Award for Best Book of Poetry by a Canadian Woman
