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Moving

By (author): Elizabeth Greene

Ghost Tree is a life journey about the search for home: imaginative, spiritual, emotional and actual. Underlying the poems are two lost homes–the poet’s childhood home, which she moved from when she was seven–and her mother’s–a home shattered by her own mother’s illness and her little brother’s death at seven. The poems also record a two-generational struggle with depression.

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Elizabeth Greene

Elizabeth Greene’s first collection of poems, The Iron Shoes, was published by Hidden Brook in 2007. Her work has appeared in the Queen’s Feminist Review, and FreeFall and has been anthologized in Crossing Lines: Poets Who Came to Canada in the Viet Nam War Era (2008) and in Arms Like Ladders: The Eloquent She (2007) as well as in two anthologies she has edited: Kingston Poets’ Gallery (2006) and Common Magic: The Book of the New (edited with Danielle Gugler) (2008). She edited (and contributed to) We Who Can Fly: Poems, Essays and Memories in Honour of Adele Wiseman (1997) which won the Betty and Morris Aaron Jewish Book Award Prize for Best Scholarship on a Canadian Subject (1998). Her fiction has appeared in Descant, Room of One’s Own and Quarry, as well as in the anthologies Vital Signs and Written in Stone. She taught English and creative writing courses at Queen’s University for many years. She is currently working on a memoir. A piece drawing on this material was published in Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood on the Dropped Threads 3 website. She lives in Kingston with her son Alan and three cats. She is the Ontario Representative for the League of Canadian Poets.

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Ghost Tree is a life journey about the search for home: imaginative, spiritual, emotional and actual. Underlying the poems are two lost homes–the poet’s childhood home, which she moved from when she was seven–and her mother’s–a home shattered by her own mother’s illness and her little brother’s death at seven. The poems also record a two-generational struggle with depression.

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Dimensions:

120 Pages
6in * 7.5in * 0.375in
0.375lb

Published:

January 04, 2010

Country of Publication:

CA

ISBN:

9781926708102

Book Subjects:

POETRY / General

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Language:

eng

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