Where Genesis Begins
Published on 9. March 2009
Book
Hardback
104 pages
978-1-55081-266-4 (ISBN)
Description
***CANADIAN AUTHORS ASSOCIATION POETRY AWARD WINNER***
***E.J. PRATT POETRY AWARD FINALIST***
Where Genesis Begins is a collaboration of two of Newfoundland's foremost artists: Tom Dawe, a profoundly visual poet, and Gerald Squires, a profoundly poetic painter. The book contains thirty-seven poems by Dawe, twenty-nine of which have not been published before, and seventy-one artworks by Squires. The book opens with an essay by Martina Seifert of Queen's University in Belfast and closes with an afterword by poet, novelist, and essayist Stan Dragland of Newfoundland.
***E.J. PRATT POETRY AWARD FINALIST***
Where Genesis Begins is a collaboration of two of Newfoundland's foremost artists: Tom Dawe, a profoundly visual poet, and Gerald Squires, a profoundly poetic painter. The book contains thirty-seven poems by Dawe, twenty-nine of which have not been published before, and seventy-one artworks by Squires. The book opens with an essay by Martina Seifert of Queen's University in Belfast and closes with an afterword by poet, novelist, and essayist Stan Dragland of Newfoundland.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Canada
Product notice
sewn/stitched
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 279 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
975 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55081-266-4 (9781550812664)
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Born in Long Pond, Manuels, Conception Bay South, Tom Dawe has been a teacher, professor of English (Memorial Univesity), visual artist, editor, writer and poet. His work includes poetry, fiction, dramatic script, folklore and children's literature. His is also one of the founding members of Breakwater Books Ltd. and TickleAce magazine. Winner of many awards and honours in arts and letters, he was recently awarded honourary membership in the Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador and induction into Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council Hall of Honour. His work has been studied in schools and colleges around the world. Rewriting Newfoundland Mythology: The Works of Tom Dawe, a book by Martina Seifert, was published in Germany and Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2002.