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News May 28, 2015 June 23, 2015

McGrath, Peacock take home 2015 Newfoundland & Labrador Book Awards

by Atlantic Books Today

In a ceremony at Government House in St. John’s Wednesday afternoon, poet Carmelita McGrath was named winner of the E.J. Pratt Award for Escape Velocity published by Goose Lane Editions. Retired veterinarian Andrew Peacock won the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Non-Fiction with his debut book Creatures of the Rock:A Veterinarian’s Adventures in Newfoundland published by Doubleday Canada. The wins represent a first for both well-established…

#78 Summer 2015, Poetry May 12, 2015 June 26, 2015

Poetic meditations on loss and reason

by Kathy Mac

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by Stephen Rowe
$16.95, paperback, 72 pp.
Breakwater Books, March 2015

Still No Word Shannon Webb-Campbell Breakwater Books

Poetry, Reviews, Web exclusives May 5, 2015 July 8, 2015

This poetry collection offers lines like constellations

by Kathy Mac

Still No Word
by Shannon Webb-Campbell
$16.96, paperback, 96 pp.
Breakwater Books, March 2015

Features, Q&A April 30, 2015 July 2, 2015

Sue Goyette’s latest tells the tragic tale of a young girl

by Shannon Webb-Campbell

Poet Sue Goyette talks about the process of writing about the sensitive topic of mental illness in children

April 16, 2015 April 8, 2015

Shannon Webb-Campbell launches poetry collection Still No Word in Halifax

by Alissa MacDougall

Please join Shannon Webb-Campbell for the launch of Still No Word at The Company House in Halifax. Shannon is an award winning poet, writer and journalist of mixed Aboriginal ancestry. She is the inaugural winner of Egale Canada’s Out in Print Award and was the Canadian Women in Literary Arts 2014 Critic-In-Residence. With special guest Kim Harris performing from her album Only The Mighty. Free admission…

Columns, Web exclusives March 27, 2015 July 23, 2015

On losing your voice and finding your freedom

by Shannon Webb-Campbell

The launch of your first book may be the most terrifying step you ever take. Poet Shannon Webb-Campbell shares her story

Excerpts, Poetry, Web exclusives March 5, 2015 July 11, 2015

Still No Word

by Shannon Webb-Campbell

Still No Word
by Shannon Webb-Campbell
$16.96, paperback, 96 pp.
Breakwater Books, March 2015

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