North End Love Songs

Katherena Vermette’s award-winning poetry collection North End Love Songs is an ode to the place she grew up, where the beauty of the natural world is overlaid with the rough reality of crime and racism. When a young girl’s brother goes missing, she learns what prejudice and discrimination mean, as the police and the media dismiss his disappearance because he is young and Indigenous.

Read alone, or as a companion to Vermette’s award-winning novel, The Break and its follow-up, The Strangers, North End Love Songs is a moving tribute to the people who make the North End their home.

AUTHOR

Katherena Vermette

Katherena Vermette is a Red River Métis (Michif) writer from Treaty 1 territory, the heart of the Métis Nation. She has published poetry, novels, and children’s literature.

Vermette received the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry for her first book, North End Love Songs (The Muses’ Company). The Break (House of Anansi) won several awards including the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and was a bestseller in Canada. Her National Film Board documentary, this river won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Short. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia.

Road Allowance Era (HighWater Press) is the final installment of her graphic novel series A Girl Called Echo and is listed among CBC Books 21 Canadian comics to watch for in Spring 2021. The Strangers (Hamish Hamilton) is the follow-up to her award-winning debut novel, The Break and features characters from the same world.

Born to a Metis father and a Mennonite mother, Vermette grew up in in the North End of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, where she currently resides.

Reviews

In North End Love Songs Katherena Vermette uses spare language and brief telling sketches to illuminate the aviary of a prairie neighbourhood Vermettes love songs are unconventional and imminent an examination and a celebration of family and community in all weathers the beautiful as well as the less clement conditions This collection is a very moving tribute to the girls and the women the boys and the men and the loving trouble that has forever transpired between us Joanne Arnott

From a mixedblood Metis woman with Mennonite roots Kate weaves a story that winds its way through the north end Nortend of Winnipeg Its a story of death birth survival beauty and ugliness through it all there are glimmers of hope strength and a will to survive whatever this city throws at you Duncan Mercredi

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Dimensions:

108 Pages
9in * 6in * 0.25in
0.04lb

Published:

March 01, 2012

Publisher:

J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing

ISBN:

9781897289761

Book Subjects:

POETRY / Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island

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Language:

eng

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