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W’daub Awae: Speaking True
A Kegedonce Anthology
W’daub Awae: Speaking True: A Kegedonce Anthology brings together some of Canada’s strongest and best loved voices on the aboriginal writing scene.
W’daub Awae: Speaking True
a Kegedonce Press anthology
Edited by Warren Cariou
W’daub Awae: speaking true: a kegedonce anthology brings together some of Canada’s strongest and best loved voices on the aboriginal writing scene. It includes new writing by: Gregory Scofield, Richard Van Camp, Marilyn Dumont, Al Hunter, Joanne Arnott, Daniel Heath Justice and all your other favourite Kegedonce Press authors. Introduced and edited by the well-respected Warren Cariou, this anthology will become a classic in no time.
This anthology is a celebration of those extraordinary successes that Kegedonce has had since 1993, and of the pivotal role it has played in the recent history of Canada’s Aboriginal literature. But for me, W’daub Awae is equally a pointer toward the future, a sign of the incredible diversity and vividness and powerful language that we can look forward to from Kegedonce in the years to come. Each piece represented here is only one small part of the extraordinary work that all of these writers will continue to produce in the future. (excerpt from Warren Cariou’s intro to the collection)
Warren Cariou has written fiction and nonfiction about his home community in northwestern Saskatchewan, including Lake of the Prairies, which won the Drainie-Taylor Prize and was nominated for several other prizes. He teaches Aboriginal literature at the University of Manitoba where he also directs the Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture.
Poetry
Publication Date: May 2010
6”x9” 123 pages, trade paperback
ISBN: 978-0-9784998-5-3
$28.00 CDN
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Poetry
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Stone the Crow
By Chris Bose
'Stone the Crow' is the first collection of contemporary urban native poetry from interdisciplinary artist/writer Chris Bose.
The author takes the reader with him as he chases after coyote down the mountains on the back of a blue horse, riding across the river and into the concrete forests of the urban reservations of Canada.
"An important new voice on the Native literary scene, a voice much needed, a voice well expressed. A writer to watch."
-Tomson Highway
ISBN: (paper)
ISBN: 9780978499839
$15.00
Poetry
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Borderlands & Bloodlines
Gloria Alvernaz Mulcahy’s new book 'Borderlands & Bloodlines' reflects her Tsalagi / Aniyunwiya roots—exploring how displacements and re-locations become journeys of necessity. The poems are embedded in all our relations where cultures/races and classes touch edges occupying land, sea and sacred spaces.
ISBN: (paper)
ISBN: 9780978499846
$15.00
Poetry
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Love Medicine and One Song
SĂ?KIHTOWIN-MASKIHKIY Ă?KWA PĂ?YAK-NIKAMOWIN
"This collection is spring bear, ample and lean. Haunting and bold. Gorgeous." -Joseph Boyden, author of 'Through Black Spruce', winner of the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize
In 'Love Medicine and One Song', Gregory Scofield steps out of the urban rez and enters the fields of love. Intertwining lush scenes from the natural world with images of the human body, the poems in 'Love Medicine and One Song' celebrate human relationships with the land, and with the bodies of ourselves and our lovers.
ISBN: 978-0-9784998-2-2(paper)
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7 x 7.5 PB 112 pages
$16.00
Poetry
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skins
Contemporary Indigenous Writing
ISBN: 0-9697120-5-7(paper)
ISBN: 978-0-9697120-6-0
6X9
$24.95 Cdn. $19.95 US.
Poetry
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The Recklessness of Love
By Al Hunter
Al Hunter gives us a hundred voices with one spirit. In his poems he's a lonely heart, a frozen Northerner, a dirty-talking dreamer, he's Bob Dylan, and he's a Rez Dog---Heid E. Erdrich, author of National Monuments and The Mother's Tongue
'The Recklessness of Love', the latest book of poetry from Al Hunter is a collection of beautifully crafted poems that are at times erotic, brooding and world-weary. There is edginess, passion, and, at times, desperation to these poems. Some are irreverent, some dreamlike, some filled with a mixture of sex and spirituality and in others pop icons appear. Hunter brilliantly conveys the frustration, surrender, longing, pain and loving that go with being human.
ISBN: 978-0-9784998-1-5(paper)
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6x9
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The Colour of Dried Bones
'The Colour of Dried Bones' is a collection of intertwined short stories. Together, they show the life of a young Ojibway woman as she struggles to find her place in society, within her relationships, and within her own body. In her exploration of different moments in her life, loves, friendships, hardships and motherhood, she also explores her relationships with her family, her people, and the people around her.
Through observation and intense seeking, she breaks through her confusion and eventually,
finds a voice that is her own-even if she does not yet recognize it. Ultimately, she discovers that she must look within herself to determine her outcome.
That only by travelling homeward, to her roots at her reserve, can she find the path that leads to healing and rest.
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ISBN: 978-0-9784998-0-8
$15.00
Fiction
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Kynship -- The Way of Thorn & Thunder -- Book One
"I recommend it to readers who like their good and evil well defined but human enough to entertain... unexpected connections between characters, handy glossary and many other details and touches contribute to the story's richness and originality." Lynda Williams, Author, "The Courtesan Prince"
ISBN: 9780973139662(paper)
ISBN: 0973139668
$12.95
Fantasy
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Wyrwood -- The Way of Thorn & Thunder -- Book Two
"What a treasure for anyone looking for heroes and adventure in a series based on Aboriginal philosophy and wisdom" - Richard Van Camp, Author, 'Angel Wing Splash Pattern'
ISBN: 9780973139679(paper)
ISBN: 0973139676
$12.95
Fantasy
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Dreyd -- The Way of Thorn and Thunder -- Book Three
The Eternity Tree has fallen, and with it falls
Sheynadwiin. The forces of Eromar ravage the
Everland, and the skies are filled with the smoke
and ashes of the burning forests. Those Folk who
do not escape into the far mountains and hidden
valleys are driven into the broken westlands of
Humanity, where Dreydmaster Vald reveals the full
vision of his grand ambition, one that will annihilate even the memory of the Kyn and their kind.
Never since the Melding have they faced such
danger. Will their roots hold fast, or will they be lost upon the storm? Can they find a safe mid
dle path on this way of thorn and thunder?
Daniel Heath Justice wraps up his critically
acclaimed trilogy, 'The Way of Thorn and Thunder'
with 'Dreyd'.
ISBN: 9780973139655(paper)
ISBN: 097313965X
$12.95
Fantasy
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That Tongued Belonging
'That Tongued Belonging', the newest book from award-winning Metis poet Marilyn Dumont, is a
collection of poems which search for acceptance in language, culture, love and geographical land-
scapes. These poems celebrate the humour and tenacity of Aboriginal women, lament the death
of a mother and recall the degradation of Aboriginal women, while challenging accepted ideas of love, age and femininity.
ISBN: 9780973139693(paper)
ISBN: 0973139692
$15.00
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Seven Deer Dancing
"...Working in the spirit of artists such as Norval Morrisseau, Nadjiwon's voice is unique and masterful, touching sounds into drum songs emerging from the centre of an ancient sacred fire. Read and listen, you will be transformed." -Karl Jirgens, Editor, Rampike
ISBN: 9780973139686(paper)
ISBN: 0973139684
$12.95
Poetry
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Steepy Mountain
Love Poetry by Joanne Arnott
“Natohta, listen. A woman is coming down from the mountain bearing a basket of poems, love songs for her nicimos, her sweetheart who has moved from shadows into the light. Natohta, listen. A women is coming down from the mountain, sacred in her bones. ...she is singing from the marrow, from her woman heart.”
- Gregory Scofield
ISBN: 9780973139631(paper)
ISBN: 0973139633
$15.00
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The Glass Lodge
"A compelling first book of poetry by young Mistawasis Cree
writer John MacDonald, 'The Glass Lodge' is fearless in its descriptions of
the often harsh realities of life for a young Aboriginal man. The poetry is
honest, frank, passionate, and energetic. From sex, drugs, and rock and
roll, to love won and lost the poems range from heartfelt laments, to love
poems, to joyful songs of praise. Dealing with life on the streets, drug and
alcohol addiction, racism, gangbanging, young love, and identity, 'The Glass
Lodge' is a celebration of overcoming despair, finding one's voice,
surviving, and ultimately, discovering one's place in the world"
'The Glass Lodge' transcends all the cliches of the angst- ridden Urban Indian. Mc Donald's verse is a brilliant fusion of the brutality and hope
that is inherent in the Aboriginal experience.I have never read poetry that so closely resembled my own experience as a First Nations man."
Darrell Dennis, Writer
'Tales of an Urban Indian', 'Moccasin Flats'
ISBN: 9780973139648(paper)
ISBN: 0973139641
$9.95
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Angel Wing Splash Pattern
'Angel Wing Splash Pattern' also explores the healing going on in Indian country. There is pain in these stories and there is loss. There is death, but there is also rebirth, and there is always the search from each of the narrators for personal truth. Readers will recognize Larry Sole from "The Lesser Blessed" in his story "How I Saved Christmas", but there are new voices here, new secrets, from new characters in communities across the north and the south, yet they are all linked by themes of hope, the spirit of friendship, and hunger.
ISBN: 9780973139600(paper)
ISBN: 0973139609
$17.95
Fiction
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Without Reservation
Indigenous Erotica
Edited By Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm Co-Published with Huia Publishers, New Zealand "This anthology is a great read in the warmth of the sun, encouraging trickles of sweat to flow and your mind to overdose on the intimacies and loving we yearn for It"
The writing in the anthology is overwhelmingly contemporary, although some stories and poems are based on old tales. Ipellie,an Inuit writer based in Ottawa, is one such spinner of tales, including Summit with Sedna, the Mother of Sea Beasts, a story about the coupling of an Inuit shaman and he mythological underwater creature called Sedna. Other stories are thoroughly modern, including 'Year of the Dog', a hilarious and ribald tale about some porno addicts in the contemporary Northwest Territories. The really hot stuff, however, tends to be found in poems.
ISBN: 9780973139624(paper)
ISBN: 0973139625
$24.50
Fiction
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Spirit Horses
By Al Hunter
"Al Hunter’s poems are healing songs for the earth and the human spirit. For the sake of the moon, for the sake of our hearts, I am glad he is writing.” Louise Erdrich
ISBN: 9780969712084(paper)
ISBN: 0969712081
$15.95
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Honour Earth Mother
"Basil Johnston writes of the real world at a time when reality seems to be disappearing from our vision. He knows what his ancestors have always known, that the only way to live on earth is to be a part of it. His new book is a remarkable examination of the connection of human beings to the Earth Mother. I heartily recommend it."
Farley Mowat.
ISBN: 9780973139617(paper)
ISBN: 0973139617
$19.00
Fiction
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The Long Dance
"I am delighted with the polemical irreverence David Groulx brings to some of his poetry. He has a keen sense of the contradictions that being native means in a nation that still distrusts and discounts his cultural/historical existence."
Marilyn Dumont
ISBN: 9780969712053(paper)
ISBN: 0969712057
$14.95
Poetry
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My Heart is a Stray Bullet
2nd Edition
"Damm's cries for belonging seem to touch chords for all humankind in the late 20th century." The Ottawa Citizen
ISBN: 9780969712091(paper)
ISBN: 096971209X
$14.95
Fiction
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Looking Into the Eyes of My Forgotten Dreams
..with subjects such as suicide, small pox, sexual abuse, alcoholism, and the nature of residential school life; this is not poetry for the faint of heart. It is a testament to a lost and alienated culture.
ISBN: 9780969712046(paper)
ISBN: 0-9697120-4-9
$14.95
non-fiction
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