Please join us for the launch of Monstrance by Sarah Klassen on Wednesday, April 18 at 8:00 pm at McNally Robinson Grant Park's Prairie Ink Restaurant. Reservations are recommended - call Prairie Ink Restaurant at 975-2659 to reserve a table.
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Monstrance bears witness to the possibility of hope and faith in an uncertain world. These poems unflinchingly acknowledge the devastation of fear and hostility, but they also marvel when “light bounces off the breakfast plates,” or “the sewing-machine-stitch spoor of a pocket mouse appears” in the snow. Sarah Klassen looks past the particularities of the ordinary and reaches for the sacred.
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Born in Manitoba’s Interlake, Sarah Klassen learned at an early age to appreciate both birdsong and nature’s silence. She has won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award (Journey to Yalta), the High Plains Award for Fiction (A Feast of Longing), and the National Magazine Gold Award for Poetry. Her work was nominated for the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, and the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. She lives in Winnipeg.
Turnstone Press
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In lush full colour, award-winning photographer Mike Grandmaison’s expert lens captures the vastness of sky and land that define the prairie landscape.
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Join Randy Craig for a roller coaster read with more twists than the Mindbender. Hang on to your hat for Hang Down Your Head. It’s Janice MacDonald at the top of her game. —Suzanne North, author of the Phoebe Fairfax
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Winnipeg artist and designer, Robert J. Sweeney, captures Winnipeg’s urban landscape in this remarkable collection of sketches, Portraits of Winnipeg: The River City in Pen and Ink.
Read moreSarah Klassen launches Monstrance
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Events
- Janice MacDonald at Bloody Words June 1-3 Written on Saturday, 02 June 2012 00:00
- Sarah Klassen to be interviewed on CJOB's The Book Club Written on Sunday, 20 May 2012 00:00
- Sally Ito gives reading and workshop during Asian Heritage Month Written on Tuesday, 15 May 2012 00:00
- John Toone reading at the MWG Symposium Written on Saturday, 12 May 2012 00:00
- Maurice Mierau reading at the MWG Symposium Written on Saturday, 12 May 2012 00:00
- Charles Leblanc reading at MWG Symposium Written on Saturday, 12 May 2012 00:00
- David Arnason reading at MWG Symposium Written on Friday, 11 May 2012 00:00
- Sarah Klassen reading at MWG Symposium Written on Thursday, 10 May 2012 00:00
- Melissa Steele reading at MWG Symposium Written on Thursday, 10 May 2012 00:00
- Janice MacDonald hosts Fictionistas in Edmonton Written on Monday, 07 May 2012 00:00