Susan Musgrave
Autor/a de Cargo of Orchids
Sobre l'autor
Susan Musgrave was born March 12, 1951 in Santa Cruz, California. Musgrave left school at age 14 and published her first poems at age 16. Musgrave has won several awards for her poetry, fiction, non-fiction and children's books. She won a National Magazine Award, R.P. Adams Memorial Prize for Short mostra'n més Fiction, the bp nichol Chapbook Award, and the People's Choice Poetry Award. Her poem, Ice-Age Lingerie, received first prize in the Panty Lines Poetry Contest. In 1996 she received the Tilden (CBC/Saturday Night) Canadian Literary Award for Poetry and the Vicky Metcalf Short Story Editor's Award. She has been short-listed four times for the Governor General's Award. She currently resides on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Bruce Stotsebury
Obres de Susan Musgrave
The Fed Anthology, Brand New Fiction and Poetry from the Federation of BC Writers (2003) 3 exemplars
Sguna, Salgang, Dang K'uut'as, Dang K'uusgid : Kiss, Tickle, Cuddle, Hug Haida Edition (2016) 2 exemplars
Kestrel & Leonardo 1 exemplars
The Embalmer's Art 1 exemplars
My love is for you 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out… (2000) — Col·laborador — 295 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1951-03-12
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- Canada
- Lloc de naixement
- Santa Cruz, California, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada - Relacions
- Reid, Stephen (husband)
- Organitzacions
- University of British Columbia
- Premis i honors
- Matt Cohen Prize (2014)
Membres
Ressenyes
This book had beautiful illustrations and a lovely sentiment about how much we love our children/grandchildren. The book compares a parent's love to the wind and to the tastes of various things using the description of strength and sweetness and to how much animals love their babies. The writing is poetic but there are times that it is stilted. The repetition of the wording make it so that the youngest child can soon join in. As a board book this would be a great book for your youngest readers and one they can use to bond with their parents, and grandparents. I read this book to my granddaughter and she loved the pictures, but did not understand the sentiment. It is a board book, but it is really better suited to 4 and 5 year olds. I recommend this to families for their home library or to give as a gift at baby showers or when a new baby is born. The publisher, Orca Book Publishers, generously provided me with a copy of this book to read. The rating, ideas and opinions are my own.… (més)
This was a lovely poem that uses metaphor to explain the love one has for another. It’s a lovely poem, I just wished it rhymed. It’s a small thing, but it’s what kept it from a five for this reviewer.
I read this because it was shortlisted for a Governor General's award. Now I wish I hadn't bothered.
Musgrave's Dove had nothing at all that I could connect to or recognize from my own experience, and the joy of reading poetry comes from a some sense of recognition or illumination. End result: reading this made me feel like I was slogging through treacle.
Musgrave's Dove had nothing at all that I could connect to or recognize from my own experience, and the joy of reading poetry comes from a some sense of recognition or illumination. End result: reading this made me feel like I was slogging through treacle.
Premis
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Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 46
- També de
- 3
- Membres
- 366
- Popularitat
- #65,730
- Valoració
- 3.5
- Ressenyes
- 5
- ISBN
- 77
- Preferit
- 1
- Pedres de toc
- 5
The illustrations and sentimentality reminded me of Munsch's "Love You Forever" and I still think I'd lean that book of the two, but this is still a book with lovely illustrations and would make a good gift for a child or mother-to-be.