Escaped Domestics
- Publisher
- Creative Book Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1998
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781895387940
- Publish Date
- Jan 1998
- List Price
- $12.95
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Description
Robin McGrath’s poetry is alive with the rhythms of speech and storytelling. Her work sings, shouts, cries. A wry humour escapes from almost every corner of the book, whose themes of community, loss and anger never fail by moralizing or sliding into the dotage of self-helpism. Arranged in four parts, these poems travel from Newfoundland meadows and the delights of rural living, to experiences and memories of the Canadian arctic. They then move to Jerusalem and to a portrait of the Jewish faith and circle back to examine domestic life with poems on home and marriage
About the author
Robin McGrath is the author or editor of fifteen books, including Trouble and Desire (1995), Escaped Domestics (1998), Hoist Your Sails and Run (1999), Donovan's Station (2002),Covenant of Salt (2005), and Livyers World(2007). She has published over two hundred pieces in magazines such as Beaver, Inuit Art Quarterly, Parchment, TickleAce, Fiddlehead and Room of One's Own.
She is an occasional contributer to CBC Radio, has written and narrated three video scripts, had her first play staged in 2002, and is currently the non-fiction columnist for the St. John's newspaper The Telegram.
Robin was born in Newfoundland and lives in Labrador with her husband, provincial court judge, John Joy. She is a member of The Writers Union of Canada and the Letterset Association of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Other titles by
Labrador, A Reader's Guide
Nursery Rhymes of Newfoundland & Labrador
Alone on the Trail
Life on the Mista Shipu
Dispatches from Labrador
The Illustrated 'Ode to Labrador'
Birchy Maid, The
Hammered by the Waves
A Young Frenchman's Sojourn in Newfoundland in 1882-83
The Winterhouse
All In Together
Rhymes, Ditties and Jingles of Newfoundland and Labrador
