Sono Nis Press - Sandy Shreve

Titles by the Author

There is not a poem in this fine book that fails to move me. The book is called Belonging, but the "longing" part of that word I feel here most - the sense of a lost past that frays away, "one thread at a time." But Shreve's past is no sentimental abstraction - it is people with parents, with great aunts, with the fascinating woman Emma who was also the man Franklin, with the poet's sister who had cerebral palsy. Their stories do not "grab for heroics," and they compell our interest for just that reason. Articulate and beautiful, the voices in these poems are ones you will be glad to have heard.

Leona Gom

Nominated for a 1998-99 Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award. The award is given annually to the author of a work sustaining the tradition of a people's literature in Canada.

"Feminist poet Sandy Shreve's third collection, Belonging, is woven with some intense family history and a gathering of extraordinary, compelling women."

Poetry, 80 pp, paper, 6"× 9", $13.95, ISBN 1-55039-073-2

		Sandy Shreve was raised in Sackville, New Brunswick, and now lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. Shreve founded and coordinated (1995-1998) Poetry in Transit, a project that displays poems in SkyTrain cars and buses throughout B.C. Her latest book, Belonging, was short-listed for the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award. Her earlier books are The Speed of the Wheel Is Up to the Potter (Quarry Press, 1990) and Bewildered Rituals (Sono Nis Press, 1992).