Lullabies in the Real World by Meredith Quartermain

Lullabies in the Real World by Meredith Quartermain

Meredith Quartermain's Lullabies in the Real World is a sequence of poems about a train journey from West Coast to East Coast that invokes a patchwork of regions, voices and histories. Her language zings with train rhythms as she unfolds a complex conversation with poets such as bpNichol and Robin Blaser.

This collection reflects and refracts Canada from diverse angles, and challenges colonizing literatures such as the Odyssey and various canonical British and US voices. As it moves from west to east, the book journeys back in time to interrogate historical events such as the Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the exclusion of Acadians. It ends by imagining a time before or outside colonization.

Rich, playful and confrontational, Lullabies in the Real World widens the poetic lens of poetry to investigate the place of a colonial nation in history, and the place of a poet vis- -vis the voices of other poets.

Meredith Quartermain: Meredith Quartermain is known across Canada for her depictions of places and their historical hauntings. Vancouver Walking won the BC Book Award for poetry. Nightmarker was a finalist for the Vancouver Book Award, and Recipes from the Red Planet, her book of flash-fictions, was a finalist for a BC Book Award. In Rupert's Land, her first novel, a town girl helps a residential-school runaway in Alberta in the 1930s.

Quartermain was the 2012 Writer in Residence at the Vancouver Public Library, where she led workshops on songwriting and writing about neighborhoods, and enjoyed doing manuscript consultations with many writers from the Greater Vancouver community. She's now continuing these activities as Poetry Mentor in the Writer's Studio Program at Simon Fraser University.

She has taught English at the University of British Columbia and Capilano College and led workshops at the Naropa Summer Writing Program, the Kootenay School of Writing, and the Toronto New School of Writing. In 2002, she and husband, Peter Quartermain, founded Nomados Literary Publishers, through which they've published more than 40 books of poetry, fiction, memoir, and drama.

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ISBN 13	9781988732787
ISBN 10	1988732786
Title	Lullabies in the Real World
Author	Meredith Quartermain
Series	Crow Said Poetry
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	NeWest Press
Year published	2020-04-01
Number of pages	108
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.