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Settler Education
  • Published: 15 April 2016
  • ISBN: 9780771036873
  • Imprint: McClelland & Stewart
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $32.99
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Settler Education

Poems

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22 Mar 2016
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15 Apr 2016
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"A tone-perfect elegiac meditation on the impossibility of engaging with painful history and the necessity of doing so." Margaret Atwood

"A tone-perfect elegiac meditation on the impossibility of engaging with painful history and the necessity of doing so." – Margaret Atwood, Thomas Morton Memorial Prize for Poetry

In the stunning poems of Settler Education, Laurie D. Graham vividly explores the Plains Cree uprising at Frog Lake -- the death of nine settlers, the hanging of six Cree warriors, the imprisonment of Big Bear, and the opening of the Prairies to unfettered settlement. In ways possible only with such an honest act of imagination, and with language at once terse and capacious, Settler Education reckons with how these pasts repeat and reconstitute themselves in the present.
  • Published: 15 April 2016
  • ISBN: 9780771036873
  • Imprint: McClelland & Stewart
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $32.99
Categories:

About the author

Laurie D. Graham

LAURIE D. GRAHAM grew up in Treaty 6 Territory, near amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton, Alberta), and she has lived in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough, in the Territory of the Mississauga Anishinaabeg, since 2018, where she is a poet, an editor, and the publisher of Brick magazine, a journal of literary non-fiction based in Toronto. Her first book, Rove, was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for the best first book of poetry in Canada. Her second and third books, Settler Education and Fast Commute, were both nominated for Ontario’s Trillium Book Award for Poetry.
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Praise for Settler Education

Praise for Rove:

  • "Graham grabs you by the hand tugging you into a running pace across prairie time and space in a frenzied barrage of culture, history, memory and detritus." Telegraph-Journal
  • "Rove is a stunning long poem in a manner reminiscent of Jan Zwicky and Robert Kroetsch that combines meditation with compact sensory impressions. Its language resonates through the twists and turns of immigrants' lived stories. Innovate, lyrical, wise, and moving, Rove considers and details the surface changes of a region in Western Canada, evoking a strong sense of place." 2014 Gerald Lampert Award Jury Citation