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Poetry Canadian

Wishbone Dance

new and selected medical poems

by (author) Glen Downie

Publisher
Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd.
Initial publish date
Oct 1999
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780919897649
    Publish Date
    Oct 1999
    List Price
    $15.00

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Out of print

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Description

"Downie's poetry carries us to the precipace where the heart of human illness and suffering is in full view. ... These are courageous poems, full of tough hope." - Jack Coulehan, MD

About the author

Glen Downie worked in cancer care in Vancouver for many years, and now lives in Toronto (and at www.glendownie.com). He served a term as Writer-in-Residence at Dalhousie University's Medical Humanities Program, and won the Toronto Book Award for his 2007 Loyalty Management. He has letterpress-printed signed broadsides by Canadian and American poets (available through www.talltreepress.com). His most recent collection is Democratic Beauties, published by Tightrope Books.

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