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Headframe

by (author) Birk Sproxton

Publisher
Turnstone Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1985
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888010995
    Publish Date
    Jan 1985
    List Price
    $7.95

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Description

Sproxton unearths the underground with diaries, puns, poetry and plays in this romping exporation of the world of mining. All the folklore of new poetic territory surfaces in the telling.

About the author

Birk Sproxton writes, edits and teaches from the heart of the prairie greenbelt in Alberta. His writing has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. He previous books include The Hockey Fan Came Riding, Headframe and The Red-Headed Woman with the Black Black Heart, which received the Manitoba Historical Society's award for historical fiction. His editorial hand can be found in Trace: Prairies Writers on Writing and the special Winnipeg in Fiction edition of Prairie Fire magazine.

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