Good-bye to the Sugar Refinery
- Publisher
- Goose Lane Editions
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1989
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780864920898
- Publish Date
- Jan 1989
- List Price
- $7.95
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Description
Wheatley reflects on her experience with the Canadian Women's Army Corps — exploring her own coming-of-age and offering an historical testament to the Canadian women who joined the Corps in World War II. Rich with sentiment, Wheatley's poems are never sentimental, but enlivened by honesty and wit.
About the author
Patience Wheatley was born in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, England, and came to Canada at the age of fifteen. Her first two collections of poetry were published by Goose Lane Editions.
Editorial Reviews
"A mature voice, wise with experience . . . An important first book by a talented new voice who most surely will not remain in the shadows."
<i>Poetry Canada Review</i>
"She is capable of touching the human heart with a simple, casual image."
<i>Quarry</i>