The Grass Beyond The Door is based on a true story: Lucy Lightfoot was born in the early 19th Century on the Isle of Wight in the south of England. She was well known in her village for her extreme obsession with the 14th century crusader Sir Edward Estur, whose carved effigy lay in St. Olave's Church in the village of Gatscombe. 
On June 13, 1831, during the severest storm in the history of the Island, a lightning bolt struck the church shortly after Lucy had been observed going inside. Sir Edward's dagger was shattered, the jewel from its hilt was gone -- and there was not a trace to be found of Lucy Lightfoot. For two years her grieving family searched for her, but she had vanished from the face of the earth. Her disappearance became a local legend, a mystery that would never be solved ... until 34 years later, when a newly discovered 14th century manuscript revealed an incredible story. 
This is where The Grass Beyond The Door begins.

The Grass Beyond The Door

Literature & Fiction

Cicely Veighey

Genre Fiction

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Before a Blue Sky Moon is really a series of three long poems that focus on a Chinese upbringing in Calgary. Moving through childhood, family history, losses and redemptions both spiritual and secular, the author examines the meaning of personal love. In these poems, father, mother and lover are always intertwined, searching for the "mystery of tides/violent attractions and physical bodies/that don't know why they give in."

Before a Blue Sky Moon

Weyman Chan

guys named Bill traces the narrator's journey from childhood to adulthood, through a marriage and beyond. The poems explore the meaning behind the mundane everyday experiences that form us. The various characters named Bill are a thread running throughout the book; they appear at meaningful moments in the narrator's life, and are representative of change. Ranging from darkly cynical to humourous and blunt, the poems are ultimately optimistic, as the resilient narrator creates a new life from the remnants of the old.

guys named Bill

Leslie Greentree

The poems in Science Fiction Saint explore the themes of childhood, memory, family and sexuality in a language that succeeds in finding the space between a more traditional use of lyric line and the experimental use of form and language.

Science Fiction Saint

Nancy Jo Cullen

Tom Three Persons was created as a one-person oral performance piece by Yvonne Trainer in the early 1990s. Yvonne's audiences have variously defined it as Biography in Verse, a work of Prairie Realism, a Postmodern long poem, a Postcolonial text, and a Multimedia piece. In Yvonne's own words: "Tom Three Persons stands as a symbol for my childhood on the Canadian prairie and the death of that childhood." Ultimately, on the page Tom Three Persons reveals the striving to go beyond the self, whatever the situation, toward the advancement of human progress.

Tom Three Persons

Yvonne Trainer

Kevin Irie's Dinner at Madonna's explores the fusion of personal and historic memory and nationality within the context of growing up in multicultural Canada. A third generation Japanese-Canadian, he writes: Memory is the country I hold as a citizen displaced by my time in the world.

Dinner at Madonna's

Kevin Irie

A Gloss on Our Painted Gods is concerned with the idea of translation: of poetry as translation, as a way of reinventing, retelling, transforming, and understanding the world around us, our mythologies, our notions of the self and the other. A tightly crafted first book, it explores and responds to the cultural artifacts of Western history: Greek and Roman texts, Renaissance paintings, and early 20th-century European poetry.

A Gloss on Our Painted Gods

Eric Barstad

Shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. go-go dancing for Elvis by Leslie Greentree is the story of two sisters: the beautiful sister, who travels the States as a dancer for an Elvis impersonator, and her more conventional sister, who stays home and renovates her house. It’s a story of love, jealousy, betrayal, and the people who used to have our phone numbers. Most of all it's a story about Hawkeye Pierce and power tools.

go-go dancing for Elvis

Focusing on intensely personal experiences, Optics shows vision as a trick of light. We see through a glass barrier we've placed between ourselves and our world, often filtered by the warps and swirls caught in that glass. We stand behind a window that is growing dark in early winter, not even noticing the creeping darkness across the glass blocking our vision. The poems explore the world reflected back by a simple piece of glass.

Optics

Bob Stallworthy

Between the Silences invites us to sit in the back row of Family and Youth Court, where important decisions are made every day - decisions that can affect our children, our families, our friends, our neighbours, our communities. The fortunate among us will never be inside a courthouse. But Diane Buchanan takes us there with her poetry. Writing with the heart of a woman who is both nurse and mother, she uses poetry not to lull us but to wake us up. In a series of word snapshots and evocative portraits she creates a collage of images both thought-provoking and heartrending. Between the Silences reveals that strange and poignant world on the other side of the courthouse door.

Between the Silences

Diane Buchanan

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