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A Breeze You Whisper, a collection of poetry was launched June 3 at the Grad Club, Queen's University, Kingston.
Catlogue copy: The poems in A Breeze You Whisper are meteors: dense, compact stories created on wings of emotion and myth – more real than reality. They collapse time, merging past and present, resulting in no-time, in all-time. Taken together, the poems in A Breeze You Whisper reveal a journey from innocence to transcendence, expressed metaphorically through the sections: East, South, West, North, and Above & Below. Readers will identify with the universality of Kathryn MacDonald’s passion and vision.
If you missed the launch, I will have copies of this and the other books in my studio. The publisher has also put it on Amazon. (Hidden Brook Press, ISBN 978-1-897475-66-9)
Review: http://www.chapterandverse.ca/reviews/395-whisper-a-declaration-of-love.html
Review: http://literatured.com/
Grandmothers' Necklace:
An international anthology that includes 61 prose and poetry authors from Canada, the U.S. and Ireland writing about grandmothers. In it you'll find "Strawberry Season," a nine-part poem of childhood, "Night Visitor," a prose-poem about a boy, his grandparents and a bat, and "Round" a poem of hugs, which I'll read at the launch. The anthology is compiled and edited by Patricia Anne Elford (a Petawawa Granny), with all profits going to Grandmothers to Grandmothers, Stephen Lewis Foundation. (ISBN: 055452462-8; $20) Order through your local bookstore or contact me and I'll pass your request to Patricia.
 Last fall (September 10, 2009), Hidden Brook Press published my novella Calla & Édourd. It is a story of echoes. And can be ordered through your nearest bookstore (ISBN 978-1-897475-39-3) or from the publisher at http://www.hiddenbrookpress.com/b-NShore.html
Alistair MacLeod, award-winning author of No Great Mischief and Island: The Collected Stories, says: "This novella, set in Eastern Ontario, bubbles with the details of everyday life. The cycle of the season is reflected in the lives of the central characters. It is a hymn/lament for that which is passing and that which is past."
Evelyn Bowering, Family Therapist, Dept of Family Medicine, Queen's University, says: "Drawing their sustenance from past generations, Calla and Édourd's love endures when traumatic loss gives way to fragmentation of memory, and past, present and future merge into one. MacDonald creates word paintings of nature and domestic life that linger after the last word is read. This is a beautiful story.
To order: Either by contacting Hidden Brook Press through the website (above) or through your local bookstore by giving them the title and ISBN 978-1-897475-39-3. In Belleville, Calla & Édourd is available at Greenley's Bookstore and in Kingston at Novel Idea.
"Gatherers," a poem that celebrates Grandma Lily and Great-aunt Julia, "Identity" that delves into myth, and "Across Generations," which seeks connections, are included in the anthology The Wisdom of Old Souls, edited by Bonita Summers. (Hidden Brook Press: Brighton, 2008, ISBN 978-1-897475-12-6).
Also, I co-authored The Farm and City Cookbook with Mary Lou Morgan (a series of essays on Canada's food system along with recipes featuring in-season, mostly locally grown produce, Second Story Press, Toronto: http://www.secondstorypress.ca/).
Books available in my studio in the barn at 6770 Old Hwy 2 (5 km west of Hwy 49 just south of 401 or 5 km east of Shannonville)
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