Earth After Rain
- Publisher
- Thistledown Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2007
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781894345361
- Publish Date
- Oct 2007
- List Price
- $9.95
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Description
Earth After Rain flourishes in sensuous delight and plumbs the depth of topography, memory and family. Benning brings Saskatchewan’s boreal forests, lakes and fauna alive, absorbing detail and meshing it with the sinews of bone, the half-light of moon, and the silent majesty of stone.
About the author
Sheri Benning grew up on a small farm in central Saskatchewan and now lives in Saskatoon. She has also lived in St. Petersburg (Russia), Fredericton, and Edmonton. Her first book, Earth After Rain, won the Anne Szumigalski Poetry Prize (Saskatchewan Book Awards) and the Brenda MacDonald Riches First Book Award. An earlier version of Thin Moon Psalm won the 2004 Writers Federation of New Brunswick Alfred G. Bailey Prize for unpublished manuscripts.
