![]() “In taut chapters, Cullen’s book captures the weight of grief, poverty, the staggering complexity of the ties that bind and break siblings as children and adults, and the beauty of love found and then miraculously found again, while simultaneously telling us the tale of how the west was (and is) lost. She has recently completed her fourth poetry manuscript and is at work on a new full-length fiction project. Her first novel, The Western Alienation Merit Badge, published by Wolsak and Wynn, was shortlisted for the 2020 Amazon Canada First Novel Award. Her short story collection, Canary, was the winner of the 2012 Metcalfe Rooke prize. Nancy is the 2010 recipient for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers. Nancy Jo Cullen’s fiction and poems have appeared in The Journey Prize, Best Canadian Fiction 2012, The Puritan, Grain, filling Station, Plenitude, Prairie Fire, This Magazine, Best Canadian Poetry 2018, Room and Arc Poetry Magazine. “Salt and Ashes is a fearless, intimate, deeply affecting indelible debut collection of love, loss, longing and healing that unsettles, untangles, astounds and enlightens, lingering in the mind and soul long after Drobnies’ final poignant words are read.”Ĭongratulations to the four other finalists of the Fred Kerner Book Award Nancy Jo Cullen, Kingston, ON Fearless, revelatory, packed full with love.” In accompanying her, we receive a finer understanding of intimacy, grief, wisdom, freedom. Here is loss, lament, longing in elegiac measure. Deeply moving in the way that only very truthful poetry moves, Drobnies makes us walk with her, move with her, and share her sorrows and still fresh joys, as she trains our eyes on what we might never otherwise see but for her gift. “A scientist mourning her husband in poetry is the heart of this extraordinary collection. Her long poem Randonnées won the Gwendolyn MacEwen Award for Best Suite of Poems and was a finalist for the CBC literary award for poetry. ![]() She has been on the shortlist for the Vallum Award for poetry. One of her poems was selected for Poetry in Transit in BC for 2020. A graduate of the SFU Writer’s Studio, her poetry has appeared in Canadian literary magazines, including The Antigonish Review, Event, Riddle Fence, The Toronto Quarterly, and The Maynard, as well as The Cider Press Review and Sow’s Ear Review in the US, and Popshot Magazine in the UK. Subscribe to the Member Book Catalogue ServiceĪdrienne Drobnies is a Vancouver poet with a PhD in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley.2018 Fred Kerner Book Award Winner and Shortlist.2019 Fred Kerner Book Award Winner and Shortlist.2020 Fred Kerner Book Award Winner and Shortlist.2021 Fred Kerner Book Award Winner and Shortlist.Fred Kerner Book Awards 2022 Winner and Shortlist.
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