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      <image:caption>In this latest collection Richard Harrison has created a companion to his Governor General Award–winning collection On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood. In My Mother Joins the Resistance, Harrison considers his mother’s life – from her time as a child during WWII’s Operation Pied Piper, up until its end, in 2017, when terminally ill with cancer, she chose MAiD – with elegant, deeply felt poetry. These are beautiful poems, ones that piece together a person, a life and a family over generations. These are poems that examine the wounds passed down through a family, alongside the love, and see the echoes of both – the wounds and the love – in the world around us. About the author: Richard Harrison is the winner of the 2017 Governor General’s Award for Poetry for On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood. Richard’s writings have been published across Canada as well as in the United States, England and Italy. His individual poems, and two books, have been translated into six languages including Spanish, Farsi, French and Arabic. This year he was honoured with the Writers’ Guild of Alberta’s Golden Pen for Lifetime Achievement. Professor Emeritus of English at Mount Royal University, currently Richard is a full-time poet, essayist, editor and writing mentor in Calgary, where he lives with his wife, Lisa.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Satellite Image by Michelle Berry, published by Wolsak &amp; Wynn, 2024.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Author Michelle Berry. Photo credit: Fred Thornhill.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Donoghue Girl by Kim Fahner, published by Latitude 46.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Author Kim Fahner.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Bring home The Mona Lisa Sacrifice by Peter Derbyshire.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Bring home I Think We’ve Been Here Before by Suzy Krause, published by Radiant Press, September 24, 2024.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Bring home Yellow Barks Spider, Radiant Press, October 22, 2024.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Author Natasha Ramoutar. Photo credit: Abynaya Kousikan.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Bring home Sugaring Off (Book*hug Press, October 8, 2024).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Bring home RuFF by Rod Carley, published by Latitude 46.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Bring SO LOUD! home.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Grab a copy of Garden Inventories wherever books are sold, including directly from the publisher at Wolsak &amp; Wynn.</image:caption>
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