Skip to main content Skip to search Skip to search

Poetry Canadian

The Word for Sand

by (author) Heather Spears

Publisher
Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd.
Initial publish date
Oct 1988
Category
Canadian, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780919897106
    Publish Date
    Oct 1988
    List Price
    $15.00

Classroom Resources

Where to buy it

Out of print

This edition is not currently available in bookstores. Check your local library or search for used copies at Abebooks.

Description

Winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry

Winner of the Pat Lowther Award

The poems are informed by the author's long sojourns in both Canada and Europe, and a new horizon appears: the author gets acquainted with a group of refugees from the Near East and in some of the poems describes their predicament and her own identification with these homeless people, who begin to define a new country of the mind.

Winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry and the Pat Lowther Award.

About the author

Poet, artist and novelist Heather Spears has received the Governor-General’s Award for poetry and most recently the Pat Lowther Prize. She lives in Denmark, visiting Canada each year to teach and give readings. She has published 11 poetry collections and three novels of speculative fiction, as well as books of drawings and poetry, including The Panum Poems and Required Reading. Heather Spears also edited and illustrated Line by Line, an anthology of Canadian poetry.

Heather Spears' profile page