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About
Written while Lynda Monahan was hospital writer-in-residence at the Victoria Hospital in Prince Albert, working often on the adult and youth mental health wards, the tight, pared poems in The Door at the End of Everything give voice to and honour those living with mental illness, speaking to not only the suffering but also the courage and hope that is so clearly there as well.
Several of the poems and poetry sequences have seen publication in various literary journals, including Grain, The Society, The New Quarterly, Transition, Bareback, and Dalhousie Review, and in the poetry anthologies Writing Menopause (Inanna Publications), Lummox Anthology of Canadian Poetry, Worth More Standing (Caitlin Press), the Apart pandemic anthology (Saskatchewan Writers Guild), and Line Dance (Burton House Books), and in various tanka publications such as Atlas Poetica, A Hundred Gourds, and Gusts. A series of online readings from this collection, created with the help of a Canada Council grant, are available on YouTube.
Dedication
Epigraph
pulling fire
point of origin (searching for clues)
going deep
changing the light
the recipe
where you are right now
cold spaghetti
pulling fire
this ride we're on
when it comes that easy
all the names
mother the truth is
considering
the simple things
closet space
call
no joke
at that moment (for Joy)
graffiti
today
that word
something deep
unsent song for my sister
I look for you
lanternfish
bitten
to clear the way
looking for the picture
the white world
worry
Poor Mary
messages
burn
no thank you
clear cut
saying the unsayable things
to say there is poetry
snapshots from the ward
saying the unsayable things
ink
the fox
the lowlands
the door at the end of everything
night train
so many ways
spiral
hardpacked
coat 1
sightless
so far
at the window
coat 2
Dwight
the song
just something to remember
these little things that save us
when hope begins
wolf willow
slow
seeking
the all-out joy of jumping
Pearl
there is a voice
many moon songs
born of fire
be
nest 1
headlamp
new ( for my sister)
nest 2
bud
the river
poem for Jonny
finding home
no denying
nugget
these little things that save us
a gift for these difficult days
Acknowledgements
About the Author
About Shadowpaw Press
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"a generous and mature poetry" - gillian harding-russell
"This is a terrific poetry collection. The poems are presented in a variety of styles, but always with a light, lyrical touch, notwithstanding the seriousness of the content of many of them: the poems explore mental illness, not in a clinical way, but from the inside, as well as aging, grief, loneliness, and loss. The poems are infused with lovely imagery and a sense of hope." - Dave Margoshes
Several of the poems and poetry sequences have seen publication in various literary journals, including Grain, The Society, The New Quarterly, Transition, Bareback, and Dalhousie Review, and in the poetry anthologies Writing Menopause (Inanna Publications), Lummox Anthology of Canadian Poetry, Worth More Standing (Caitlin Press), the Apart pandemic anthology (Saskatchewan Writers Guild), and Line Dance (Burton House Books), and in various tanka publications such as Atlas Poetica, A Hundred Gourds, and Gusts. A series of online readings from this collection, created with the help of a Canada Council grant, are available on YouTube.
Dedication
Epigraph
pulling fire
point of origin (searching for clues)
going deep
changing the light
the recipe
where you are right now
cold spaghetti
pulling fire
this ride we're on
when it comes that easy
all the names
mother the truth is
considering
the simple things
closet space
call
no joke
at that moment (for Joy)
graffiti
today
that word
something deep
unsent song for my sister
I look for you
lanternfish
bitten
to clear the way
looking for the picture
the white world
worry
Poor Mary
messages
burn
no thank you
clear cut
saying the unsayable things
to say there is poetry
snapshots from the ward
saying the unsayable things
ink
the fox
the lowlands
the door at the end of everything
night train
so many ways
spiral
hardpacked
coat 1
sightless
so far
at the window
coat 2
Dwight
the song
just something to remember
these little things that save us
when hope begins
wolf willow
slow
seeking
the all-out joy of jumping
Pearl
there is a voice
many moon songs
born of fire
be
nest 1
headlamp
new ( for my sister)
nest 2
bud
the river
poem for Jonny
finding home
no denying
nugget
these little things that save us
a gift for these difficult days
Acknowledgements
About the Author
About Shadowpaw Press
.
"a generous and mature poetry" - gillian harding-russell
"This is a terrific poetry collection. The poems are presented in a variety of styles, but always with a light, lyrical touch, notwithstanding the seriousness of the content of many of them: the poems explore mental illness, not in a clinical way, but from the inside, as well as aging, grief, loneliness, and loss. The poems are infused with lovely imagery and a sense of hope." - Dave Margoshes