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Danceland Diary

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Luka Dekker and her sister Connie are the inheritors of a secretive and disturbing family history going back three generations to the disappearance of their great-grandfather.

Their troubled mother, Lark, also mysteriously disappeared; and their beloved grandmother, who raised the two girls, had a life haunted by a traumatic event that is only revealed after her death. The story is played out against a backdrop of the drug-fueled Downtown Eastside of Vancouver and the horrific pig farm murders, the seductive beauty of rural Saskatchewan, and the glittering lights of a famous prairie dance hall. Luka’s quest for her mother, and for peace and love, is a disquieting, moving, and thoroughly engaging examination of intergenerational trauma and forgiveness.

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McNally Robinson
Radiant Press

Among the Untamed

Available May 2023

By turns angry, powerful, visceral, evocative, and ultimately hopeful, this modern retelling of Joan of Arc in linked poems casts her as a prairie-born Jeanne Dark. In tough, tender lyrical language filled with imagery and magic, the protagonist explores sexual politics, feminism, gender identity, and how we make meaning of life.

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Frontenac House
McNally Robinson Booksellers

Events

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Among the Untamed Launch - April 20, 2023, Saskatoon

McNally Robinson Booksellers, 7 PM

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Frontenac House Spring Quartet Launch - 5 PM Mountain Time, April 28, 2023, Calgary

Virtual launch. Featuring Among the Untamed by dee Hobsbawn-Smith, It Begins in Salt by Natalie Meisner, Diagnosing Minor Illness in Children by Kerry Ryan, and Self Portrait Embracing a Fabulous Beast by Jim Nason.

Link for Launch

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Opening for dennis cooley's launch of body works, April 26, 2023, Saskatoon

McNally Robinson Booksellers, Saskatoon, 7:00 pm

Directions

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Among the Untamed Reading - 7 pm, May 9, 2023

7 pm, John Cuelenaere Library, Prince Albert

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Upcoming Releases and Events

Danceland Diary

Now In Bookstores

BUY THE BOOK

Among the Untamed

Available May 2023

BUY THE BOOK

Events

Among the Untamed Launch - April 20, 2023, Saskatoon

Frontenac House Spring Quartet Launch - 5 PM Mountain Time, April 28, 2023, Calgary

Opening for dennis cooley's launch of body works, April 26, 2023, Saskatoon

Among the Untamed Reading - 7 pm, May 9, 2023

“Bread & Water is an emotionally arresting, beautifully written series of essays.”

“Food is a wonderful agent for storytelling... and Bread & Water demonstrates this brilliantly.”

“[Bread & Water is] An amazing feast... riveting... eloquent.”

“[Bread & Water is a] sensuous experience; she brings her poet’s eye and ear to everything within her purview.”

“A deep love of the art of cooking that includes the language of fine dining (cassoulet, confit) even if the lamb was raised in Olds and she picked the rhubarb herself... she impressively manages this collision of worlds with a wholesome, approachable style.”

“These finely focussed poems [in Wildness Rushing In] invite us into a sensuous and emotionally rich landscape.”

“The writing [in Wildness Rushing In] is honed and textured, the senses so alive that you can practically taste the language. There are moments of brilliance rare in a first book.”

“dee Hobsbawn-Smith’s stories [in What Can’t Be Undone] are written with a poetic edge. Her descriptions, particularly western landscapes, are often luxurious, lending themselves a kind of nuanced impression, a delicate fingerprint on the reader’s mind. "

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