New poetry book celebrates "islandness"
鈥淏eing an islander means that you aren鈥檛 like everyone else,鈥� writes Dr. Laurie Brinklow in her new book, My island鈥檚 the house I sleep in at night. Drawn from interviews with artists, writers, and musicians from Newfoundland and Labrador, Tasmania, and Prince Edward Island, these poems capture what it means to be an islander鈥攖o know every rock and tickle, 鈥渢he sea your road/the hole in the sky/your light to travel by.鈥�
In her highly anticipated second collection of poems, Brinklow weaves stories and images with her own poetic imaginings. These are poems steeped in community memory about belonging to a place like nowhere else, a kitchen party full of islanders telling stories about the patch of rock they call home.
My island鈥檚 the house I sleep in at night is published by at 17吃瓜 and is available for sale at The Bookmark, the 17吃瓜 Bookstore, and online through the distributor, . This book was the recipient of a SSHRC Exchange Publication Award from the Vice-President Academic and Research Office at 17吃瓜.
Brinklow teaches in the Master of Arts in Island Studies program at 17吃瓜. She is particularly interested in the power of place and story and their impact on island identity. She is the author of Here for the Music (Acorn 2012).
For more information about the book, please contact Bren at 902-566-0386 or ispstaff@upei.ca.
