The Illustrated 'Ode to Labrador'
- Publisher
- Breakwater Books Ltd.
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2016
- Category
- Landscapes, Places, Essays
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781771030915
- Publish Date
- Oct 2016
- List Price
- $16.95
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Description
The Illustrated Ode to Labrador is a new treatment of Dr. Harry Paddon's beloved anthem. Artist Geoff Butler has produced twenty-five vibrant original paintings that feature the various people and regions of The Big Land, executed in oil paint. The introduction by author Robin McGrath outlines the history of the Ode and the life of Dr. Paddon, and in a series of thumbnail vignettes, she puts Butler's paintings into a cultural and geographic context that amounts to a mini-tour of the Eastern Ungava. The book includes sheet music for the two most familiar tunes to the Ode, with lyrics in English, Inuktitut and Innu-aimun. Paintings and vignettes together make a lively, informative work suitable for cross-generational enjoyment.
About the authors
Artist Geoff Butler is a Nova Scotian artist and writer who was born on Fogo Island, NL. He did paintings for the "Ode to Labrador" during an artist residency at North West River, Labrador, just a stone's throw from Dr. Paddon's house. Geoff's self-published books are Art of War: Painting it out of the picture; The Look of Angels: Angels in Art; With Every Breath We Take: a modern fable in which a snowflake helps put an end to war; and Our Own Little World: in paintings and verse. He has also illustrated Ode to Newfoundland (Tundra Books, 2003).Author Robin McGrath is a former academic who specialized in Inuit Studies She did twenty-five years of field research in the Canadian Arctic before returning to her home in Newfoundland, later moving to Labrador in 2006. She is the award-winning author of numerous books, including Inuit Literature: The Development of a Tradition, the novels Donovan's Station and The Winterhouse, the poetry collections Escaped Domestics and Covenant of Salt, and All in Together: Nursery Rhymes of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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
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
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
Livyer's World
Saltfish and Shmattes
A History of the Jews in NL