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Reading where we live

In preparation for the EBLES event in July, I checked my personal library of local authors.

I would be happy to share these titles, listed below, with any interested reader. The only ones missing are by David Manners and they should be available from the local Library. Gaspereau Press in Kentville has a wide selection of these attractively bound books.

Harold Horwood, 1987, Dancing on the Shore: a celebration of life at Annapolis Basin, McClelland and Stewart.

Harold Horwood, 2003, Cycle of the Sun: a five part-poem, Gaspereau Press.

Geoff Butler, 2020, Lullabies for Seniors, Granville Ferry.

Ray Cronin, 2022, Alan Syliboy, Culture is our Medicine, Gaspereau Press.

David Manners, 1941, Convenient Season, Dutton.

David Manners, 1943, Under Running Laughter.

Gary Saunders, 2015, My Life with Trees: a Sylvan journey, Gaspereau Press.

Gary Saunders, 2022, Earthkeeping, Love notes for tough times, Goose Lane.

Soren Bondrup-Nielsen, 2014, Merging, Gaspereau Press

Donna E. Smyth, 1999, Running to Paradise: a play about Elizabeth Bishop, Gaspereau Press.

Donna E. Smyth, 2003, Among the Saints, Roseway Press.

Dick Groot, 2012, Come from Away: Artists of Minas Basin, Light Through Studio

Dick Groot, 2018, Closure: A Photographic Eye on an Old Economy.

Dick Groot, 2021, From Kodak Brownie to Smart phone: my journey in photography, ArtCan Gallery, Canning.

Sandra Barry, 2011, Elizabeth Bishop: Nova Scotia’s ‘Home made’ poet, Nimbus

Sandra Barry and Laurie Gunn(Eds), 2013, Echoes of Elizabeth Bishop, Gaspereau Press.

Harry Thurston, 2004, A Place between the Tides, Greystone.

.Harry Thurston, 2005, The Sea’s Voice: An anthology of Atlantic Canada Nature Writing, Nimbus

Harry Thurston, 2009, Animals of my own kind, Signal.

Harry Thurston, 2015, Keeping Watch at the end of the World, Gaspereau.

Ernest Buckler, 1952, The Mountain and the Valley, McClelland and Stewart.

Ernest Buckler, 1963, The Cruelest Month, McClelland and Stewart.

Ernest Buckler, 1968, Ox Bells and Fireflies, McClelland and Stewart.

Ernest Buckler, 1977, Whirligig, McClelland and Stewart.

Claude Bissell, 1989, Ernest Buckler Remembered, U of T Press.

Peter B. Wyman, 2021, Six Friends

Peter B. Wyman, 2022, Iceland: a simple saga.

Peter B. Wyman, 2022, Nymphalis Antiopa

Peter B. wyman, 2022, Crossing Thames

All publications by Cardigan, Little and Crow Publishing, Annapolis Royal.

Available as a set from local bookstores.

Rachel Brighton, Bridgetown.
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