Frank Ledwell – lisa疯马秀 Publishing and Vagrant Press lisa疯马秀 Publishing is the largest English-language publisher east of Toronto Thu, 20 Jun 2024 12:24:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 153484567 North Shore of Home /store/north-shore-of-home.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=north-shore-of-home Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:52:04 +0000 /store/north-shore-of-home.html/north-shore-of-home Since it was first published in 1986, Frank Ledwell's The North Shore of Home has had an enduring place in Island literature. In warm-hearted prose and poetry, in a voice keenly tuned to the music of Prince Edward Island English, Ledwell explores the Island's North Shore, and especially the richly historied community of St. Peter's Bay. Taken together, his poems and stories create a portrait of a community surviving through the Depression and the Second World War - a community at the Island's edge and at the very cusp of the dramatic changes that would affect all small Prince Edward Island communities in the postwar years.

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]]> 53319 Island Sketchbook /store/island-sketchbook.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=island-sketchbook Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:52:00 +0000 /store/island-sketchbook.html/island-sketchbook With characteristic warmth, generosity, and humour, Frank Ledwell seamlessly weaves personal memoir and communal folk wisdom into 60 prose sketches of Island characters, anecdotes, and traditions. The stories are based on real people or incidents; others are fictionalized, evoking the true, remembered landscape of Ledwell's childhood at St. Peter's Bay on the North Shore of Prince Edward Island, his experience as a student, teacher, and professor at St. Dunstan's University, and his later life as a professor, husband, and parent in rural Queen's County. The sketches also evoke the author's love of people and place and mark his point of view as that of an inveterate Islander.

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]]> 53317 Taste of Water /store/taste-of-water.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=taste-of-water Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:51:34 +0000 /store/taste-of-water.html/taste-of-water The taste of water is something we all know but need to be reminded of once in a while: how it tastes of shared memory, and of what it means to be human, and of the earth.Prince Edward Island's second Poet Laureate, Frank Ledwell, invites us to enter his words and world, seeking to share a sense of our common humanity and our interdependent fates, and to recognize communal experience in the particularities of personal experience.The traditional role of the Poet Laureate is to mark occasions, and Ledwell's poems masterfully make quotidian Island events and lives into special occasions that sing with the "spirit of the spoken word taking hold."

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]]> 53313 Dip & Veer /store/dip-veer.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dip-veer Tue, 20 Feb 2024 22:17:00 +0000 /store/dip-veer.html/dip-veer Frank Ledwell has previously published one volume of prose and poetry, The North Shore of Home (Acorn Press, 2002) and two collections of poetry, Crowbush and Other Poems (Ragweed, 1990) and Dip & Veer: Reflections on the Art of Alex Colville (Acorn Press, 1996). He has performed as a popular storyteller in venues across Prince Edward Island. Frank Ledwell is a Professor Emeritus of the English Department of the University of Prince Edward Island, where he taught creative writing for many years. He was the first recipient of the PEI Council of the Arts' Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Literary Arts, and for many years was known as the Island's unofficial poet laureate.

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