Skookum Raven by Heather Haley

Skookum Raven by Heather Haley

There are some rough and wild birds around Howe Sound - West Coast avians like the sharp-shinned hawk, the northern harrier, and the whiskey-jack. Heather Haley, an accomplished mapper of human migration, pair-bonding and predation, takes these feathered frenemies as her starting point in this assured third collection, Skookum Raven. Like her foremothers and contemporaries Gwendolyn MacEwen, Susan Musgrave and Karen Solie, Haley writes sophisticated free lyrics of a witchy feminist kind - but adds some proletarian ferocity with her bus-station grandpas and sketches of iffy guys like Ed the Fence. These are astute, austere poems which sometimes take flight into optimistic beauty - this book is 'pockmarked with luck.'

Trailblazing poet Heather Haley pushes boundaries by creatively integrating disciplines, genres and media. Her writing appears in numerous journals and anthologies including the Antigonish Review, Geist and The Verse Map of Vancouver. Haley was an editor for the LA Weekly and publisher of the Edgewise Cafe, one of Canada's first electronic literary magazines. She is the author of poetry collections Sideways, Three Blocks West of Wonderland, and debut novel, The Town Slut's Daughter. She has toured Canada, the U.S. and Europe in support of two critically acclaimed AURAL Heather CDs of spoken word song. Haley has directed numerous videopoems including Purple Lipstick, Bushwhack and Whore In The Eddy, official selections at dozens of international film festivals.

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ISBN 13	9781771713900
ISBN 10	1771713909
Title	Skookum Raven
Author	Heather Haley
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Ekstasis Editions America
Year published	2021-05-18
Number of pages	106
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.