Folding the Wilderness Within
- Publisher
- Frontenac House Ltd.
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2014
- Category
- Canadian, Women Authors
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781927823118
- Publish Date
- Aug 2014
- List Price
- $15.95
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Description
Folding the Wilderness Within by Joan Shillington is a collection of poems of intimacy, both gentle and brutal, that celebrate the essential force of family. From a child’s hand holding cards “as if they were webbed” to Machu Picchu where stones “fit so tight not even a hair can pass,” the author weaves reality and imagination, language and form together to create a poetic story.
About the author
Awards
- Short-listed, City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Award
Contributor Notes
Joan Shillington is a Calgary poet who has been published in The Antigonish Review, Grain, Prairie Fire, and Freefall Magazine as well as four anthologies. She has won various contests over the years. Joan’s first book of poetry, Revolutions, was published by Leaf Press (2008).