Soft Geography

By (author): Gillian Wigmore

“What a wonderful, fresh voice Gillian Wigmore brings to the page. These wise poems know the push and pull within family. They reveal the tender truths behind the rough edges of small-town life. Her voice resonates with authenticity, and whether she is writing about a near drowning or ice fishing, she is ultimately writing about the complications of love. These are poems you will not soon forget.”

— Robert Hilles, Governor General’s Award-winner for Poetry

AUTHOR

Gillian Wigmore

Gillian Wigmore is the author of three books of poetry, (most recently Orient, Brick Books, 2014) a novella, (Grayling, Mother Tongue Publishing, 2014), a novel (Glory, Invisible Publishing, 2017), and Night Watch: The Vet Suite (Invisible Publishing, 2021), a trio of novellas. A health communications officer, she lives and works on the traditional territory of the Lheidli T’enneh in Prince George, BC.


Reviews

[Wigmore] goes after small moments with clear eyes; of course there’s the occasional Big Move, but the poems keep ending small, precisely small, and I’m jealous about her skill.

The characters speaking here aren’t all the same, so it’s not a question of her having found a voice that works (confessionally, for example) and ridden it until the legs fell off. No, she’s worked her craft relentlessly, and the result has been tremendous flexibility in the narrative or lyric voice. These voices share an eye for small things (a knitter’s arthritic hands, a camper’s presumption that a tent muffles all sounds) and a sense of enmeshedness in the worlds around us (social, ecological, familial, etc), but they come out sounding different.

— book addiction


Awards

  • ReLit Award 2008, Winner
  • Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, BC Book Prizes 2008, Short-listed
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    Dimensions:

    Pages
    7.90in * 5.30in * .30in
    120.00gr

    Published:

    May 04, 2007

    Publisher:

    Caitlin Press

    ISBN:

    9781894759236

    Book Subjects:

    POETRY / Canadian

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    Language:

    eng

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