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Revery
By Jenna Butler
Starting in late November as the bees are settling in for winter Jenna Butler takes us through a year of beekeeping on her small piece of the boreal forest. She considers the impact of crop sprays, and debates the impact of introduced flowers versus native flowers, the effect ... Read more
Overview
Starting in late November as the bees are settling in for winter Jenna Butler takes us through a year of beekeeping on her small piece of the boreal forest. She considers the impact of crop sprays, and debates the impact of introduced flowers versus native flowers, the effect of colony collapse disorder and the protection of natural environments for wild bees. But this is also the story of women and bees and how beekeeping became Butler's personal survival story.
Jenna Butler
Jenna Butler is the author of three critically acclaimed books of poetry, Seldom Seen Road, Wells and Aphelion; an award-winning collection of ecological essays, A Profession of Hope: Farming on the Edge the of Grizzly Trail ; and a poetic travelogue, Magnetic North: Sea Voyage to Svalbard.
Butler's research into endangered environments has taken her from America's Deep South to Ireland's Ring of Kerry, and from volcanic Tenerife to the Arctic Circle onboard an ice-class masted sailing vessel, exploring the ways in which we impact the landscapes we call home. A professor of creative writing and environmental writing at Red Deer College, she lives with seven resident moose and a den of coyotes on an off-grid organic farm in Alberta's North Country.
Awards
- High Plains Book Award for Woman Writer 2021, Short-listed
- Canada Reads 2023, Long-listed
- Governor General's Literary Award for Non-fiction 2021, Short-listed
Reviews
"It is Butler’s luminous and discerning prose that places this volume with other classics that closely observe a place and its inhabitants, giving us insight into what it means to be fully and powerfully human in a turbulent but beautiful world. "
— Susan J Tweit
"Butler's book reads like a cross between a collection of essays and a naturalist's journal, containing the attentiveness of a love letter and the wistfulness of an elegy. "
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- Dimensions 126 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 x 0.32 in
- Published October 20, 2020
- Publisher Wolsak & Wynn Publishers
- Category Nature
- Keywords Endangered Species , Essays , Personal Memoirs , C 2010 To C 2019 , Memoirs , Literary Essays
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