Lorna Goodison
Lorna Goodison is the author of eight books of poetry, including Travelling Mercies, Controlling the Silver, and Goldengrove: New and Selected Poems, two collections of short stories, and an acclaimed memoir, From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her People which was a finalist for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction and the Trillium Award, and won the B.C. Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. Goodison has received much international recognition for her fiction and poetry, including the Musgrave Gold Medal. Born in Jamaica, Goodison has taught at the University of Toronto and now teaches at the University of Michigan...
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Hardcover | 288 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-3577-7 (0-7710-3577-2)
January 25, 2011 | $28.99
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In the tradition of Jamaica Kincaid and Austin Clarke, writing about their Caribbean homelands, award-winning author Lorna Goodison has brought to life her native Jamaica in this dazzling fiction debut.
Following her award-winning family memoir, From Harvey River, this Canadian debut of Lorna Goodison’s fiction will introduce readers to one of world...
eBook | 288 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Biography & Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography - Women; Biography & Autobiography - People of Color
978-1-55199-172-6 (1-55199-172-1)
February 24, 2009 | $19.99
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“Throughout her life my mother, Doris, lived in two places at once: Kingston, Jamaica, where she raised a family of nine children, and Harvey River, in the parish of Hanover, where she was born and grew up.”
When Doris Harvey’s English grandfather, William Harvey, discovers a clearing at the end of a...
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Emblem Editions | Biography & Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography - Women; Biography & Autobiography - People of Color
978-0-7710-3411-4 (0-7710-3411-3)
January 27, 2009 | $19.99
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“Throughout her life my mother, Doris, lived in two places at once: Kingston, Jamaica, where she raised a family of nine children, and Harvey River, in the parish of Hanover, where she was born and grew up.”
When Doris Harvey’s English grandfather, William Harvey, discovers a clearing at the end of a...
Trade Paperback | 104 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry - Caribbean & Latin American; Poetry
978-0-7710-3382-7 (0-7710-3382-6)
April 17, 2001 | $16.99
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At the heart of acclaimed poet Lorna Goodison’s seventh book of poetry – her first published in Canada – is music, moving from a slow ska, a hard rocksteady, and a sweetie-come-brush-me bossanova, to line and sight gratitude psalms, lionheart outlaw anthems, and Miles Davis, blown by the winds to a...
