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list price: $17.95
edition:Paperback
category: Poetry
published: May 2015
ISBN:9780889823044
publisher:
Oolichan Books
Description
Waiting for the Albatross is Sandy Shreve's fifth collection of poetry. It features found poems composed using fragments from a diary her father, Jack Shreve, wrote in 1936 when, at age 21, he embarked overseas as a deck hand on a freighter. The five-month trip took him from Halifax, through the Panama Canal and across the Pacific to New Zealand and Australia; then back again, docking at Montreal. Shreve's poems are illustrated with photos from the journey, taking the reader into the life of a young man facing the world of the Great Depression.
Contributor Notes
Sandy Shreve was raised in New Brunswick and has lived in B.C. since 1971. She now lives on Pender Island. Her work is widely anthologized, has won the Earle Birney Prize and been short-listed for the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award.
