{"title":"Gillian Wigmore","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"night-watch-book-gillian-wigmore-9781988784588","title":"Night Watch","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2021 Danuta Gleed Literary Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThree poetic novellas centred around the author's background of growing up as the child of a veterinarian.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFull of humour and compassion, \u003ci\u003eNight Watch\u003c\/i\u003e collects three novellas that explore the lives of rural veterinarians. Wigmore's vets struggle to stay awake during unending calving seasons, reaching for moments of stillness and grace between phone calls and farm calls; they balance their own family's births and deaths with shepherding animals through caesareans and euthanasia, covering miles of road in their vast jurisdictions during harsh winters and muddy, ruthless springs. Travelling from small towns in northern BC to the south of France and Fiji, sometimes in the span of a night and sometimes over a lifetime, the men and women in \u003ci\u003eNight Watch\u003c\/i\u003e work with their hands, keep their hearts in check, and strain to define themselves against the backdrop of an unforgiving job that puts them at the mercy of the elements--and each other.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"One might assume the graphic viscera of farm medicine wouldn't lend itself to beautiful writing, but one would be wrong--Wigmore's lilting writing is as soothing as a lullaby.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eChatelaine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Wigmore's prose brings to mind Alice Munro's ability to capture the complex emotions that simmer underneath quiet, quotidian moments.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eVancouver Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49910269640977,"sku":"CIN1988784581G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50404759863569,"sku":"CIN1988784581VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1988784581.jpg?v=1751316741"},{"product_id":"dirt-of-ages-book-gillian-wigmore-9780889712645","title":"Dirt of Ages","description":"\u003ci\u003eDirt of Ages\u003c\/i\u003e is the highly anticipated second book of poetry by Gillian Wigmore, whose debut collection \u003ci\u003esoft geography\u003c\/i\u003e (2007) captured the ReLit Prize for Poetry and was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay BC Book Prize. \u003cp\u003eIn Dirt of Ages, everything meets in \"the perfect v\" of the valley: where rivers meet in an \"exchange between sky and water,\" where rural runs into urban,\"where art and work meet,\"\"the rush and rattle,\" where fog and smog converge as \"foetid fall inversions,\" and where \"two chafe so close together.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWigmore expands both her curiosity and command as a poet from personal observations and relationships with wilderness to a universal, societal energy that flows through time, place and every one of us.\"Notions of deeper rivers\" do not reveal a romanticized \"true north\" but rather a meth dealer accidentally entreating a mother with child on the streets of a pulp-mill town, and \"burnedout buildings that are a calling card of the heart's.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmong so many other interstices, human interaction with our natural environment is expressed as \"rotten lumber stacked and waiting in the woodlot floodplain\" and \"our wallets open, hoping wealth \/ will rain down after winter,\" while the \"the earthen hum of bugs at work\" goes on: the dirt of ages.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52680348893457,"sku":"NLS9780889712645","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780889712645.jpg?v=1762312903"},{"product_id":"glory-book-gillian-wigmore-9781926743981","title":"Glory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA northern gothic tale about resilience and belonging.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn a boom town dominated by a man-eating lake, Renee and Danny Chance start a new life in his grandfather's cabin. Renee struggles to keep her head above water until she is drawn into the orbit of two beautifully notorious bar-singer cousins, and all three women are called to test the bonds of blood and loyalty. A polyphonic fable riddled with tall tales, \u003ci\u003eGlory\u003c\/i\u003e explores what it means to be a woman in north-central BC by flooding the shores of the human heart.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Stunning, raw prose and a fierce narrative that is irresistibly readable.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Malahat Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Sensitive, taut, and observant, each voice in Wigmore's complex tapestry brings this small town brilliantly to life.\"\u003cb\u003e--Eden Robinson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A great novella is a work of alchemy, and that's what we're treated to in \u003ci\u003eGlory\u003c\/i\u003e... The women in your life need this book, maybe almost as much as the men do. Buy it for them.\"\u003cb\u003e--Book Addiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52756570964241,"sku":"NIN9781926743981","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781926743981.jpg?v=1763576518"},{"product_id":"orient-book-gillian-wigmore-9781926829920","title":"orient","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrient\u003c\/i\u003e is the third collection from one of Western Canada's most accomplished poets.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eComposed mainly of three long poems--an extended meditation on the connection between man and fish, the lament of a big-souled cowboy poet looking up from rock bottom, and a historical envisioning of an intimate relationship between a pioneer and a powerful crone--\u003ci\u003eOrient\u003c\/i\u003e leaps, sings, burrows down, and orients the reader within its rich ecosystem. The appeal of these poems lies partly in their blend of humility (the open-minded approach), in their force (the taut style, the original vision) and in an astonishing boldness. Wigmore is a \"poet of place\" in the best sense: \"about the big picture.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I had a job and then I didn't\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ebut once I spoke a tavern sermon\u003cbr\u003e that came to me in darkness\u003cbr\u003e and men I knew who crossed the street\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ewho shunned me in daylight\u003cbr\u003e they wept\u003cbr\u003e and that's something\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e--from \"tavern\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":67615451382033,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":67615452365073,"sku":"NLS9781926829920","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781926829920.jpg?v=1790905965"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/collections\/author-books-by-gillian-wigmore.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}