The Word for Sand
- Publisher
- Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd.
- Initial publish date
- Oct 1988
- Category
- Canadian, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780919897106
- Publish Date
- Oct 1988
- List Price
- $15.00
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Description
Winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry
Winner of the Pat Lowther Award
The poems are informed by the author's long sojourns in both Canada and Europe, and a new horizon appears: the author gets acquainted with a group of refugees from the Near East and in some of the poems describes their predicament and her own identification with these homeless people, who begin to define a new country of the mind.
Winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry and the Pat Lowther Award.
About the author
Poet, artist and novelist Heather Spears has received the Governor-General’s Award for poetry and most recently the Pat Lowther Prize. She lives in Denmark, visiting Canada each year to teach and give readings. She has published 11 poetry collections and three novels of speculative fiction, as well as books of drawings and poetry, including The Panum Poems and Required Reading. Heather Spears also edited and illustrated Line by Line, an anthology of Canadian poetry.
