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Poetry Canadian

Nuns Looking Anxious, Listening to Radios

by (author) Helen Humphreys

Publisher
Brick Books
Initial publish date
Sep 1990
Category
Canadian
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781771312288
    Publish Date
    Sep 1990
    List Price
    $11.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780919626478
    Publish Date
    Jan 1990
    List Price
    $14.00

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Alcuin Citation in 1991 for excellence in book design in Canada.

Nuns Looking Anxious, Listening to Radios is a work in the hazard of retrieval. What sticks in retrospect? Seldom what you would expect, not always the happiness. Otherwise you could train for life, you could actually learn from grandmothers, mothers; poems -- those bodies of lines and spaces -- would not appear unbidden bearing news you hold your breath to hear. Helen Humphreys comes through the rich reproach of the past into the present, a bruise, a beautiful bloom.

About the author

HELEN HUMPHREYS’ last novel, The Reinvention Of Love, was a national bestseller. Coventry was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year and a finalist for the Trillium Book Award. Humphreys won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Prize for Afterimage and the Toronto Book Award for Leaving Earth. Her much-loved novel The Lost Garden was a Canada Reads selection. The recipient of the Harbourfront Festival Prize for literary excellence, Humphreys lives in Kingston, Ontario.

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