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WINNER - NL BOOK AWARD!
I'm a little late in announcing that I'd Write the Sea Like a Parlour Game has won the 2019 Newfoundland & Labrador Book Award for Poetry (E.J. Pratt Poetry Award)!! Fabulous news. Here's what the jury (Mark Callanan, Patrick Warner, Greg Pike) said of my book:
“The poems in Alison Dyer’s I’d Write the Sea Like a Parlour Game are steeped in realism, particularly in the Newfoundland environment, it
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“found this pinned in my kitchen 'round the bay "The purpose of life is to enjoy every moment." That sounds about right. Enjoyment, and gratitude.”
― I'd Write the Sea Like a Parlour Game
― I'd Write the Sea Like a Parlour Game
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“found this pinned in my kitchen 'round the bay "The purpose of life is to enjoy every moment." That sounds about right. Enjoyment, and gratitude.”
― I'd Write the Sea Like a Parlour Game
― I'd Write the Sea Like a Parlour Game
“Consulting maps can diminish the wanderlust that they awaken,as the act of looking at them can replace the act of travel. But looking at maps is much more than an act of aesthetic replacement. Anyone who opens an atlas wants everything at once, without limits--the whole world. This longing will always be great, far greater than any satisfaction to be had by attaining what is desired. Give me an atlas over a guidebook any day. There is no more poetic book in the world.”
― Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will
― Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will
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