Stewart Donovan – 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 12:32:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 153484567 Wake of the Aspy /store/wake-of-the-aspy.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wake-of-the-aspy Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:08:15 +0000 /store/wake-of-the-aspy.html/wake-of-the-aspy Teeming with life and remembrance, Wake of the Aspy is a novel of family, passion, and the beauty of memory鈥檚 heart.The coastal steamer Aspy connected northern Cape Breton to the world. It was a lifeline, an escape route, and a threat to the old ways. Rooted in a woman鈥檚 hard-won independence, Stewart Donovan鈥檚 terrific, often hilarious storytelling鈥攖he sounds and rhythm and acid wit of daily life鈥攆aces with vitality the local life and its encounters with government and a tourism future. Despite expropriations, war, cutbacks and social injustice aimed at driving them out, these are survivors you still might be lucky enough to meet Down North.

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]]> 53432 Molly Poems /store/molly-poems.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=molly-poems Tue, 20 Feb 2024 22:34:59 +0000 /store/molly-poems.html/molly-poems The Molly Poems and Highland Elegies contains rare poems written in tribute to the paintings of Molly Lamb Bobak, Canada s first woman war artist. Each poem, while inspired by Bobak s work, takes its own unique direction. And the Highland Elegies section offers powerful new poems that evoke more of the Maritimes world of Donovan s successful first collection, CAPE BRETON QUARRY.

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]]> 53411 Cape Breton Quarry /store/cape-breton-quarry.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cape-breton-quarry Tue, 20 Feb 2024 22:33:37 +0000 /store/cape-breton-quarry.html/cape-breton-quarry Born in Ingonish, Cape Breton, Stewart is the author of the popular comic novel, 'Maritime Union'. He teaches at St. Thomas University, Fredericton, and is the founding editor of The Nashwaak Review.

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