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Poetry Canadian

Pink purse girl

by (author) Susan Helwig

Publisher
Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd.
Initial publish date
Sep 2006
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781894987141
    Publish Date
    Sep 2006
    List Price
    $17.00

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Description

With bright, bold images, Susan L. Helwig's Pink purse girl dances off the page. With "eyes honed in a blizzard," she writes of love, lust and life, moving with ease from a lover's sheets, warm from the dryer, to the contents of a third prize poetry winner's perfect pink purse. Along the way she visits the prairies of her past, travels to Paris, falls in and out of love, and hears the music of the sixties. This is a vibrant, warm and wry collection, a remarkable book.

About the author

Susan L. Helwig grew up on a dairy farm in southwestern Ontario just outside of Neustadt. From 1994 to 2002 she interviewed Canadian and international authors for the radio programme In other words on CKLN 88.1. She never tires of travelling in Europe. Austria, 2009 marked her fourteenth Continental trip. Her poems have appeared in many literary journals and anthologies in Canada and abroad, and she has two previous poetry collections: Catch the Sweet (Seraphim Editions, 2001) and Pink Purse Girl (Wolsak and Wynn, 2006).

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