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Joseph Sherman

Joseph Sherman. The author of four collections of poetry, Joseph Sherman has been the editor of ARTSatlantic, Charlottetown, since 1979. A version of A Jewish Childs Christmas in Cape Breton was part of a longer memoir, written in 1970, when Sherman was a graduate student at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. In slightly different form, it was broadcast locally and regionally on CBC Radio at Christmas, 1994. It appears here by permission of the author.

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Beautiful Veins

by Joseph Sherman

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A Canadian poet's last words

A sense of ego-urgency has seemingly sucked hard on any high octane left in my system, and what used to take me a decade and more to accomplish as a writer has suddenly fruited within a 12-month time frame.
- Joe Sherman, December 2005
The result is Beautiful Veins, Joe Sherman's final book of poems. Joseph Sherman, aut …

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Coastlines

The Poetry of Atlantic Canada

by Richard Greene; matt robinson; Peter Sanger; Elisabeth Harvor; Andrew Steeves; Harry Thurston; David Helwig; George Elliott Clarke; Elizabeth Bishop; John Steffler; John MacKenzie; John Smith; Alden Nowlan; Geoffrey Cook; Jeanette Lynes; Carmelita McGrath; Michael Crummey; Alan R. Wilson; Brent MacLaine; Robert Gibbs; Michael Thorpe; John Thompson; Gordon Rodgers; Enos Watts; Allan Cooper; Robert Moore; Rita Joe; Elizabeth Brewster; Milton Acorn; Fred Cogswell; Al Pittman; Richard Lemm; Randall Maggs; Charles Bruce; Alfred G. Bailey; Sue Goyette; Sue Sinclair; Sue MacLeod; Fraser Sutherland; Lynn Davies; Anne Simpson; Eric Trethewey; Hugh MacDonald; Tom Dawe; Patrick Warner; Agnes Walsh; Douglas Lochhead; M. Travis Lane; Tammy Armstrong; Don Domanski; Thomas OGrady; Brian Bartlett; R. M. Vaughan; Joseph Sherman; Douglas Burnet Smith; Liliane Welch; Kay Smith; Carole Langille; Mary Dalton
edited by Laurence Hutchman; Ross Leckie; Robin McGrath & Anne Compton

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Atlantic Canada is enjoying a renaissance unknown since the days of Alden Nowlan, Milton Acorn, and John Thompson. Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada features work by 60 of the region’s finest poets in a volume that will whet appetites for more. The earlier poetry renaissance began in 1945, with the establishment of The Fiddlehead magazine …

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Gifts to Last

Christmas Stories from the Maritimes and Newfoundland

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also available: Audiobook (CD)

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Christmas a-glitter, Christmas on a shoestring. Christmas wrecked. Christmas salvaged. Christmas in city, village and country, in church and shopping mall and barn -- they're all here, in stories by the best writers in the Maritimes and Newfoundland. Walter Learning's Christmas treat opens with "Matthew Insists on Puffed Sleeves," from Anne of Gree …

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