Reading the Water
- Publisher
- Black Moss Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2008
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780887534478
- Publish Date
- Sep 2008
- List Price
- $10.00
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Description
Water is theme of this latest book of poetry by Laurence Hutchman. The opening poems, written at The Great Mother Conference in Camp Kieve, associate water with art and creativity. Others use a stream as a metaphor for the mind, make family associations and explore the less peaceful aspects of water.
About the author
Laurence Hutchman was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and grew up in Toronto. He received his PhD from the Université de Montreal and has taught at a number of universities. For twenty-three years he was a professor of English literature at the Université de Moncton at the Edmundston Campus. Hutchman has published 13 books of poetry, including Foreign National, Beyond Borders, Reading the Water, Personal Encounters, Two Maps of Emery, The House of Shifting Time, Fire and Water (in collaboration with Eva Kolacz) and Swimming Toward Sun Collected Poems: 1968-2020. He has also co-edited the anthology Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada and edited In the Writers’ Words.
His poetry has received many grants and awards, including the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence and has been translated into numerous languages. In 2017 he was named poet laureate of Emery, north Toronto. He lives with his wife, the artist and poet, Eva Kolacz in Oakville, Ontario.
Other titles by
In the Writers' Words
Conversations with Twelve Canadian Poets, Volume II
In the Writers' Words
Conversations with Twelve Canadian Poets, Volume II
Swimming Towards the Sun
Collected Poems 1968-2020
Fire and Water
The House of Shifting Time
Two Maps of Emery
Personal Encounters
In The Writers' Words
Conversations With Eight Canadian Poets
Writing the Terrain
Travelling Through Alberta with the Poets
Coastlines
The Poetry of Atlantic Canada