Hearing Echoes: Poems and Art

By Renee Norman and Carl Leggo

This collection of both narrative and lyrical poetry moves between two strong voices that resonate with and against one another, a woman and a man, focusing on family relationships in all their intersections and differences. The poems are about daughters, granddaughters, son, mothers, spouses, and deal with love, sorrow, joy, loss, redemption: the stuff of living. Weaving through the collection are the words and spirit of Virginia Woolf, who has affected and inspired both poets over the course of their writing, parenting, teaching, and being.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
• Release date: Sep 1, 2016
• ISBN: 9781771333405

Renee Norman

Renee Norman is an award-winning poet, writer, and retired educator. Her poetry book, True Confessions, was awarded the Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award for poetry in 2006. She is also the author of two other volumes of poetry, Backhand Through the Mother, and Martha in the Mirror (Inanna). She received the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies Distinguished Dissertation Award for House of Mirrors, published in 2001. Previously she worked as a classroom teacher, university professor, and school board consultant. She lives in Coquitlam, BC.

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