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View from my Mother's House

by (author) Carl Leggo

Publisher
Breakwater Books Ltd.
Initial publish date
Jun 1999
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781894294065
    Publish Date
    Jun 1999
    List Price
    $12.95

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Description

View From My Mother's House is a rich and varied collection, full of characters from a time now gone. Readers will enjoy getting to know the residents of Lynch's Lane and find them difficult to forget.

About the author

Carl Leggo is a poet and professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia where he teaches courses in writing and narrative research. His degrees include: BA, BEd (Memorial University of Newfoundland); Certificate in Biblical Studies (Tyndale Seminary); MA, MEd (University of New Brunswick); PhD (University of Alberta). His poetry and fiction and scholarly essays have been published in many journals in North America and around the world. He is the author of two collections of poems, titled Growing Up Perpendicular on the Side of a Hill and View from My Mother’s House (both published by Killick Press, St. John’s), as well as a book about reading and teaching poetry, titled Teaching to Wonder: Responding to Poetry in the Secondary Classroom (Pacific Educational Press, Vancouver). After more than sixteen years on the Pacific coast of Canada, he still longs for the Atlantic coast, and Newfoundland which will always be home.

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