Out of Line
Daring to be an Artist Outside the Big City
- Publisher
- Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd.
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2018
- Category
- Canadian, Cultural, Women Authors
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781928088592
- Publish Date
- Jun 2018
- List Price
- $20.00
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Description
Poet and scholar Tanis MacDonald has taught creative writing for twenty years all across Canada: in small community workshops, large university classes and everything in between. The question she's heard the most is "How can I be a writer?" and she realized early on that this question had nothing to do with putting words on a page. Out of Line is her answer to this question. This book is about creativity and community, about what it is like to try and pick up a pen, or a paintbrush, and create art for the first time when you don't come from a background with access to the arts. In this wide-ranging work, MacDonald looks at our societal preconceptions about the artist lifestyle and examines how real artists fit into the everyday world. Along the way she walks the reader through the steps that must be taken for an idea to make it from a concept to a finished piece and what happens once the work is out in the world. But Out of Line also tackles how issues such as class and the rural-urban divide can structure our interactions with the arts. MacDonald examines the experiences artists have, whether beginners or established, in finding a community to support them and celebrate their work outside of the major urban centres where the industry has traditionally been clustered. In the end, Out of Line works to open up the arts to everyone who might dream of creating.
About the author
Tanis MacDonald is the author of two books of poetry: Fortune (2003) and Holding Ground (2000), and is the winner of the 2003 Bliss Carman Poetry Prize. She has published articles on the poetry of P.K. Page, Lorna Crozier, and Anne Carson. She teaches English at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario.
Di Brandt’s poetry titles include questions I asked my mother (1987), Agnes in the sky (1990), Jerusalem, beloved (1995), and most recently, Now You Care (2004). She has received numerous awards for her poetry, including the CAA National Poetry Prize, the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, and the Gerald Lampert Award. Di Brandt recently returned to the Manitoba prairies, her home, after a decade away, to take up a Canada Research Chair in Creative Writing at Brandon University.
Other titles by
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Adventures in Walking While Female
Mobile
The Daughter’s Way
Canadian Women’s Paternal Elegies
GUSH
menstrual manifestos for our times
questions I asked my mother
Laurier Poetry Pack #3
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
From Text to Txting
New Media in the Classroom
Rue the Day
Speaking of Power
The Poetry of Di Brandt
Fortune
a poetry manuscript