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4 | A book of essays or poetry April is National Poetry Month, and we want you to celebrate by reading a book of poetry this month. Poetry isn't your thing? Try a book of essays instead!
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Best Canadian Poetry 2024
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Bardia Sinaee
Selected by editor Bardia Sinaee, the 2024 edition of Best Canadian Poetry showcases the best Canadian poetry writing published in 2022.
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A Year of Last Things : poems
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Michael Ondaatje
The influential and internationally acclaimed author of seven novels, including the Booker Prize-winning The English Patient that became a major film that won Academy Awards, returns to poetry with a collection of prose that merges memory with the present.
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Put Flowers Around Us and Pretend We're Dead : New and Selected Poems
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Catherine Graham
Poems within this collection circle around profound themes, including family, healing, loss and love, but they are written with a delight in the natural world, a delicate line and ethereal imagery. Here, birds are gathered in bouquets, a ghost is a fold in the mind and the snow holds light.
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The Anthropocene reviewed : essays on a human-centered planet
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John Green
The Anthropocene is the current geologic age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays, bestselling author John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale.
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The Hungry Ear : poems of food & drink
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Kevin Young
The National Book Award finalist author of Jelly Roll presents an evocative collection of food poetry that meditates on the role of food in everyday life, identity and culture and includes pieces by such writers as Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Frost and Allen Ginsberg.
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Scars & Stars / : Poems
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Jesse Thistle
"Fans of Jesse Thistle's extraordinary debut From the Ashes have already had the pleasure of reading his poetry, which is sprinkled throughout this bestselling memoir. In Scars and Stars, he digs deeper into the poetic form, which is especially close to his heart.
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(M)othering : an anthology
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Anne Sorbie
Fifty-six contributors illuminate the kind of gritty,body mind soul transformations that only the mothering myth can evoke. Their work will take you to wonder and wildness, kindness, beauty, grief, love. These writers and artists show us what it means to create, to birth something, to love it and to suffer loss.
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Little Dogs : new and selected
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Michael Crummey
Twenty years after the publication of his debut, Little Dogs: New and Selected Poems brings together selections from Michael Crummey’s first four books of poetry with a significant offering of new work.
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Beneath the Surface of Things : New and Selected Essays
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Wade Davis
Covering a wide range of topics, including the endless conflict in the Middle East and climate fear and trepidation, one of the foremost thinkers of our time, through an anthropological lens, reveals what lies beneath the surface of things, allowing us to see, and seek, a perspective of promise and hope.
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Novelist as a Vocation
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Haruki Murakami
In this highly personal look at the craft of writing, an internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares his own creative process as well as his thoughts on the sparks of creativity that inspire other writers, artists and musicians.
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The Collected Schizophrenias : essays
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Esmâe Weijun Wang
The award-wining author of The Border of Paradise presents a collection of evocative essays on mental illness that build on her own experiences with schizoaffective disorder while examining the vulnerabilities of institutionalization, PTSD and Lyme disease.
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Call us what we carry : poems
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Amanda Gorman
The presidential inaugural poet—and unforgettable new voice in American poetry—presents a collection of poems that includes the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States.
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77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin
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Thomas King
77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin by Thomas King (Cherokee and Greek), an award winning novelist, short story writer, scriptwriter, and photographer, presents his first collection of poems. In 77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin, Thomas King uses 77 poems to delve into personal, historical and contemporary issues that have affected Indigenous peoples.
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Upstream : selected essays
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Mary Oliver
A collection of essays with a new piece on Provincetown, follows the author as she contemplates the pleasure of artistic labor; her boundless curiosity for the flora and fauna that surround her; and the responsibility she has inherited from the great thinkers and writers of the past, to live thoughtfully, intelligently and to observe with passion.
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Adult Drama : and other essays
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Natalie Beach
The writer of the viral New York Magazine piece“I Was Caroline Calloway” presents an absurdist and comical memoir-in-essays about the frenzied journey to adulthood in a world gone mad.
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These Precious Days : essays
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Ann Patchett
In a series of intimate essays that provide a glimpse into her mind and heart, one of the most celebrated writers of our time connects life and art as she illuminates what matters most life often takes turns we do not see coming.
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Share your reads with us! Let us know what books you've been reading for the GPL Reading Challenge and we'll share the titles with our subscribers! Your books could show up as a bonus in next month's recommendation newsletter, or be included in other special newsletters coming out throughout the year. This is your chance to share your favourite books of the year with other readers, and help fill up their TBR lists!
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How to participate Read a book according to each month's challenge to be eligible to win our grand prize at the end of the year. That's one book a month, and only 12 books total. (Tip: you don't have to do the challenges in order, as long as you complete all 12 within the year, it still counts!) Monthly recommendations By signing up for this e-Newsletter, you'll get monthly recommendations for each challenge throughout the year straight to your inbox. Every year in January we start again and send you a brand new list of 12 challenges.
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Half the battle of completing a reading challenge is keeping track and staying motivated. Here are a couple ways we suggest to stay organized: - Download, print and fill out the GPL Reading Challenge form
- Create a list of what you read using your GPL online account
- Use a book tracking website like Goodreads or The Storygraph
Share with us! Sharing the books you read is not required, but highly encouraged! Share your progress with us and other readers by posting photos and updates on social media using the hashtag #GPLReadingChallenge and tagging us @GrimsbyLibrary!
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