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Earth After Rain

by (author) Sheri Benning

Publisher
Thistledown Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2007
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781894345361
    Publish Date
    Oct 2007
    List Price
    $9.95

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Earth After Rain flourishes in sensuous delight and plumbs the depth of topography, memory and family. Benning brings Saskatchewan’s boreal forests, lakes and fauna alive, absorbing detail and meshing it with the sinews of bone, the half-light of moon, and the silent majesty of stone.

About the author

Sheri Benning grew up on a small farm in central Saskatchewan and now lives in Saskatoon. She has also lived in St. Petersburg (Russia), Fredericton, and Edmonton. Her first book, Earth After Rain, won the Anne Szumigalski Poetry Prize (Saskatchewan Book Awards) and the Brenda MacDonald Riches First Book Award. An earlier version of Thin Moon Psalm won the 2004 Writers Federation of New Brunswick Alfred G. Bailey Prize for unpublished manuscripts.

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