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South Side of a Kinless River

by (author) Marilyn Dumont

Publisher
Brick Books
Initial publish date
Sep 2024
Category
NON-CLASSIFIABLE, Women Authors, NON-CLASSIFIABLE
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781771316316
    Publish Date
    Sep 2024
    List Price
    $23.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781771316323
    Publish Date
    Sep 2024
    List Price
    $13.99

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Featured on Quill & Quire's Fall Preview

A nuanced, relational, and community-minded new book from one of Canada's preeminent poets.

South Side of a Kinless River wrestles with concepts of Métis identity in a nation and territory that would rather erase it. Métis identity, land loss, sexual relationships between Indigenous women and European men, and midwifery by Indigenous women of the nascent settler communities figure into these poems. They add up to a Métis woman's prairie history, one that helps us feel the violence in how those contributions and wisdoms have been suppressed and denied.

"Each poem is an anthem, every page showcasing the talent and necessity of this incredible poetic voice. Dumont brings the Métis tone, cadence and intricate stitch-work into all she creates."
- Cherie Dimaline, author of The Marrow Thieves and Empire of the Wild

"The voice of this Métis woman is as loving, tender and humane, as it is powerful, satirical and political..."
- Rita Bouvier, author of a beautiful rebellion

About the author

Marilyn Dumont is the author of four collections of poems: A Really Good Brown Girl (winner of the 1997 Gerald Lampert Award), green girl dreams Mountains (winner of the Writer’s Guild of Alberta’s 2001 Stephan G. Stephansson Award), That Tongued Belonging (winner of the 2007 McNally Robinson Aboriginal Poetry Book of the Year and Aboriginal Book of the Year Award) and The Pemmican Eaters (published in 2015 by ECW Press). Marilyn has been Writer-in-Residence at the Edmonton Public Library and in numerous universities across Canada. In addition, she has been faculty at the Banff Centre for the Arts’ Writing with Style and Wired Writing programs, as well as an advisor and mentor in their Indigenous Writers’ Program. She serves as a board member on The Public Lending Rights Commission of Canada, and freelances for a living.

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