Cattail Skyline

By (author): Joanne Epp

In her second poetry collection, Joanne Epp ventures from open prairie roads into little creek beds, down onto the warm earth of strawberry patches and far afield to the busy markets of Cambodia to examine the intimate ways we come to know and experience place. With vivid detail and a sense of quiet reverence, Cattail Skyline captures a myriad of landscapes where every change of season and slant of light reveals something previously unnoticed, and where even the most well- trodden paths hold the potential for new discovery.

AUTHOR

Joanne Epp

Born and raised in Saskatchewan, Joanne Epp spent several years in Ontario and now makes her home in Winnipeg with her husband and two sons. Currently she serves as assistant organist at St. Margaret’s Anglican Church. Her poetry has appeared in journals– The New Quarterly, The Antigonish Review, CV2, The Light Ekphrastic, and others — and in one anthology. Cattail Skyline is her second poetry collection.


Reviews

Cattail Skyline is a love song en plein air for the prairies, full of painterly seeing. The narrator returns to the landscape of her childhood, taking inventory of the ways it shaped her. Why return to the path? / Where else would you go?
–Monica Kidd, Chance Encounters with Wild Animals

What a gift these poems are in these troubled times. Each walk down the cemetery road is stirring, each journey by train or back to childhood truly moving in every sense. Exquisite at every turn and hauntingly precise, Cattail Skyline quietly measures the electricity of place, the rhythms of life, and what it means to return and remember. I feel as if my heart has been heard.
–Brenda Schmidt, Culverts Beneath the Narrow Road


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In her second poetry collection, Joanne Epp ventures from open prairie roads into little creek beds, down onto the warm earth of strawberry patches and far afield to the busy markets of Cambodia to examine the intimate ways we come to know and experience place. With vivid detail and a sense of quiet reverence, Cattail Skyline captures a myriad of landscapes where every change of season and slant of light reveals something previously unnoticed, and where even the most well- trodden paths hold the potential for new discovery.

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Details

Dimensions:

120 Pages
8.5in * 5.5in * 1in
1lb

Published:

April 15, 2021

Country of Publication:

CA

Publisher:

Turnstone Press

ISBN:

9780888017239

Book Subjects:

POETRY / Canadian

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Language:

eng

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