Wishbone Dance
new and selected medical poems
- Publisher
- Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd.
- Initial publish date
- Oct 1999
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780919897649
- Publish Date
- Oct 1999
- List Price
- $15.00
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Where to buy it
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.