"A tone-perfect elegiac meditation on the impossibility of engaging with painful history and the necessity of doing so." Margaret Atwood
LAURIE D. GRAHAM's first book of poetry, Rove, was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for best first book of poetry in Canada. Poems from her second collection, Settler Education, were shortlisted for the 2014 CBC Poetry Prize and won The Puritan's Thomas Morton Memorial Prize for Poetry. Graham holds a BFA in Creative Writing from the University of Victoria and an MFA from the University of Guelph. She is an editor of Brick, A Literary Journal, as well as an instructor at Fanshawe College. She grew up in Sherwood Park, Alberta, and now lives in London, Ontario.
• "Graham grabs you by the hand tugging you into a running pace
across prairie time and space in a frenzied barrage of culture,
history, memory and detritus." --Telegraph-Journal
• "In a manner reminiscent of Jan Zwicky and Robert Kroetsch . . .
[Graham’s poetry] combines meditation with compact sensory
impressions. . . . [Innovative], lyrical, wise, and moving, [her
work] considers and details the surface changes of a region in
Western Canada, evoking a strong sense of place." --Gerald Lampert
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