This Brighter Prison
A Book of Journeys
- Publisher
- Brick Books
- Initial publish date
- Oct 1993
- Category
- Canadian
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781771312646
- Publish Date
- Oct 1993
- List Price
- $11.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780919626638
- Publish Date
- Mar 1993
- List Price
- $11.95
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Description
In her first book of poetry since The Small Words in My Body, which won the Pat Lowther Prize for 1990, Karen Connelly writes, in the tradition of the writer-adventurer, of vivid encounters and reflections abroad and at home, continuing her pursuit of "living knowledge of the world." These poems enact journeys of the body and heart with candour and sensuous grace, catching the very texture of human experience in the lithe, muscular lines which have a cat-like metaphorical reach.
About the author
Karen Connelly is the author of nine books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Her first book, a collection of poems called The Small Words in my Body was published 22 years ago. It won the Pat Lowther Award. Her poetry has been translated into French, Spanish, Russian, and Burmese. She is also the author of several acclaimed books of prose, including The Lizard Cage, winner of the Orange Broadband New Writers Prize, Touch the Dragon, winner of the Governor General’s Award, and Burmese Lessons, a love story, shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award and the BC National Award for Nonfiction. Her journalism, essays and poetry have been published in the Globe and Mail, Toronto Life, Toronto Star, The Walrus, The New Humanist (Britain), National Geographic Traveller, Shambhala Sun, and dozens of literary magazines and periodicals in Canada, the U.S., Britain, and Asia.Her books are explorations of the countries where she has lived and travelled: Burma, Thailand, Spain, France, Greece, and, of course, Canada. In all three genres, she has increasingly assumed the role of writer as political witness. She has long been a supporter and an occasional board member of PEN Canada and has been active in various campaigns on behalf of writers in prison or living under persecution. She makes her home in Toronto with her family.
Other titles by
The Change Room
Come cold river
Last Call
Touch the Dragon
A Thai Journal
Burmese Lessons
Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for New Writers and the Governor General's Literary Award
The Lizard Cage
Grace and Poison
One Room in a Castle
Letters from Spain, France and Greece
Touch the Dragon
A Thai Journey