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Wendy McGrath is a poet and novelist from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. McGrath's most recent novel, "North East" (NeWest Press, 2014) is the second novel in the ''Santa Rosa'' (NeWest Press, 2011) trilogy set primarily in Edmonton, Alberta. ''Santa Rosa'' was nominated for the 2012 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize. ''Recurring Fictions'' (University of Alberta Press, 2002), McGrath's first novel, is an experimental work chronicling the history of a Canadian family. The plot structure of this novel is non-linear, with shifts in narrative viewpoint and time. The first line of the novel, "Johnny Cash played the harmonica imitating the sound of trains" hints at one of the novel's recurring motifs. The often poetic style of this novel is multi-layered with spaces in the text and on pages providing literal and figurative openings for the reader to enter the world of the narrator(s). Short fragments of the text are also repeated at the bottom of some of the pages. Her first book of poetry, ''common place ecstasies'' (Beach Holme Publishing, 2000), explores themes of home, and childhood. A long poem, "Preserving," which is included in this collection was also published in chapbook form by Rubicon Press in February, 2011. "Preserving" uses found portions of text extracted from a home canning pamphlet as a springboard for poetic narrative that tells the multi-generational story of prairie women. As noted on the Rubicon Press website: "McGrath’s grandmother gave her that brochure and it was a palimpsest of sorts, with notes on the recipes and unexpected doodles penciled in. Publications like that brochure, as well as cookbooks, seemed to be in the background of her grandmothers’ and her mother’s lives when she was growing up. But, when she encountered these texts as an adult, their meaning became quite different." McGrath has collaborated with printmaker Walter Jule, who also contributed cover art for ''common place ecstasies'', on a poetry/print project entitled ''A Revision of Forward''. These prints and poems have been exhibited together in Edmonton and the poems will be published by NeWest Press in fall 2015. McGrath's fiction and poetry has been broadcast on CBC Radio and has appeared in numerous literary journals. Her non-fiction has been published locally and nationally. == External links == * (University of Alberta Press ) * (NeWest Press ) * (Dundurn Press ) * (Rubicon Press ) * (Tightrope Books - The Acrobat 2 (Spring 2013 poems: "pecunia" and "domus") ) * (''Santa Rosa'' (Edmonton Journal review by Cheryl Purdey) ) * ("Taking Stock of What Was Lost" (Jamie Hall, The Edmonton Journal) ) * (''Santa Rosa'' (Prairie Fire Books review by Donna Gamache) ) * (''Santa Rosa'' ) (Belletrista review) * (''common place ecstasies'' ) (Canadian Literature review by Jeannette Lynes) * (''Recurring Fictions'' (World Literature Today review by Ervin Beck) ) * (''capacious hold all blog post - black bag hypertext'' ) * (The Poetry Project (Edmonton Journal - "A Christmas Poem With Many People Written to be Read in May") ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wendy McGrath」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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