Description
The Newfoundland Poetry Series was begun in 1993 as Breakwater's twentieth anniversary project to honour and preserve the literary talents of our Newfoundland and Labrador poets. Selection is based on quality. Breakwater's aim is to make the series affordable to as many lovers of poetry as possible.
About the author
Beth Powning grew up in a small New England town, where her family has lived since the 1790s. In 1972, she and her husband Peter Powning moved to Canada and bought an 1870s farm in New Brunswick, where they established a pottery business.
In 1995, Beth Powning published a book of photography, Roses for Canadian Gardens (written by childhood friend Bob Osborne). She later found her voice in Home: Chronicle of a North Country Life. Over the next fifteen yaers, five books followed: another book of photographs, Northern Trees and Shrubs; two works of non-fiction, Shadow Child and Edge Seasons; and two bestselling novels, The Hatbox Letters and The Sea Captain's Wife.
Other titles by
Al Pittman: Collected Poems
One Wonderful Fine Day for a Sculpin Named Sam
The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Poetry
An Island in the Sky
Al Pittmans Selected Poetry
Thirty for Sixty
A Rope Against the Sun
West Moon (Script)
West Moon
A Play
Down by Jim Longs Stage
Rhymes for children and young fish