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North End Love Songs Paperback – March 1, 2012
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Katherena Vermette's award-winning poetry collection North End Love Songs is an ode to the place she grew up, where the beauty of the natural world is overlaid with the rough reality of crime and racism. When a young girl’s brother goes missing, she learns what prejudice and discrimination mean, as the police and the media dismiss his disappearance because he is young and Indigenous.
Read alone, or as a companion to Vermette's award-winning novel, The Break and its follow-up, The Strangers, North End Love Songs is a moving tribute to the people who make the North End their home.
- Print length108 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherThe Muses' Company
- Publication dateMarch 1, 2012
- Dimensions5.4 x 0.4 x 8.4 inches
- ISBN-101897289766
- ISBN-13978-1897289761
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"In North End Love Songs, Katherena Vermette uses spare language and brief, telling sketches to illuminate the aviary of a prairie neighbourhood. Vermette's love songs are unconventional and imminent, an examination and a celebration of family and community in all weathers, the beautiful as well as the less clement conditions. This collection is a very moving tribute, to the girls and the women, the boys and the men, and the loving trouble that has forever transpired between us." -- Joanne Arnott
"From a mixed-blood Metis woman with Mennonite roots, Kate weaves a story that winds its way through the north end (Nor-tend) of Winnipeg. It’s a story of death, birth, survival, beauty and ugliness; through it all there are glimmers of hope, strength, and a will to survive whatever this city throws at you." --Duncan Mercredi
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Katherena Vermette is a Red River Métis (Michif) writer from Treaty 1 territory, the heart of the Métis Nation. She has published poetry, novels, and children’s literature.
Vermette received the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry for her first book, North End Love Songs (The Muses’ Company). The Break (House of Anansi) won several awards including the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and was a bestseller in Canada. Her National Film Board documentary, this river won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Short. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia.
Road Allowance Era (HighWater Press) is the final installment of her graphic novel series A Girl Called Echo and is listed among CBC Books 21 Canadian comics to watch for in Spring 2021. The Strangers (Hamish Hamilton) is the follow-up to her award-winning debut novel, The Break and features characters from the same world.
Born to a Metis father and a Mennonite mother, Vermette grew up in in the North End of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, where she currently resides.
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- Publisher : The Muses' Company (March 1, 2012)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 108 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1897289766
- ISBN-13 : 978-1897289761
- Item Weight : 4.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.4 x 0.4 x 8.4 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,298,925 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,701 in Poetry About Places (Books)
- #9,597 in Poetry by Women
- #15,320 in American Poetry (Books)
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My partner grew up in Winnipeg's north end and is around the same age as Katherena Vermette. Her poems moved him to tears. He had his own nostalgic stories about places like Peanut Park or things like Big Gulps.
This is definitely a book you'll want to add to your collection.