Shaking the Dreamland Tree

McInnis, Nadine

Coteau Books

The mother/child relationship affects us as children (or as mothers) all our lives. "Quintet offers five views of this relationship, expressed in short fiction and poetry, by five of the best new writers in Canada.

Quintet

Literature & Fiction

Zettell, Susan

Goliger, Gabriella

Hawkins, Sharon

Nicholls, Sandra

Poetry

Buschekbooks

Poetry. TWO HEMISPHERES charts one woman's descent into, and recovery from, depression. Nadine McInnis finds solace and humanity in the faces of illness, and breaths an imagined life into the photographs of ten women, patients in the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum in the mid-nineteenth century. Counterpointing the photographs and the voices of these lost women with her more personal experience of depression, she crafts a stunning tribute to the resilience of human spirit and mind. "I feel like I've uncovered a treasure--the mind's brilliance and transcendence embedded in a deep geology of love and pain, and which acquire purpose here. Such bright threads of thought, compassion and language as McInnis both discourses on and inhabits the imprisoned mind. I'm astonished at the strength and passion of these poems"--Marilyn Bowering. Nadine McInnis is the author of six other books: they include short stories and essays as well as poetry. Her most recent bollection of poetry was shortlisted for the 2006 Ottawa Book Award. She lives in Ottawa where she teaches in the Professional Writing Program at Algonquin College.

Two Hemispheres

Brick Books

"What was I doing when . . . ?" For Nadine McInnis, this question is a catalyst for exploring the connections between seemingly unrelated events. McInnis builds bridges between the unknowable and the intimate, making connections between "famous" media moments -- such as Princess Diana giving birth, Ben Johnson winning Olympic gold -- and the events in ordinary lives. She allows each to comment on the other, transmitting knowledge "hand to hand" through a chain of human connection. In the harrowing poems at the core of this book, McInnis explores the violence of our connection to one another, and the ultimate unknowable -- and intimate -- events: "hand to hand" combat, war and death. She assumes unconventional personae, such as those of a female soldier during the Gulf War and an officer who commits an atrocity. Finally, in her closing poems, McInnis brings us home again, with sensuous and healing poems about love and family.

Hand to Hand

Raincoast Books

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