Katherena Vermette
For Katherena Vermette, Winnipegâ€™s North End is a neighbourhood of colourful birds, stately elms, and always wily rivers. It is where a brotherâ€™s disappearance is trivialized by local media and police because he is young and aboriginal. It is also where young girls share secrets, movies, cigarettes, Big Gulps and stories of loveâ€”where a young mother full of both maternal trepidation and joy watches her small daughters as they play in the park.,â€œIn North End Love Songs, Katherena Vermette uses spare language and brief, telling sketches to illuminate the aviary of a prairie neighbourhood. Vermetteâ€™s love songs are unconventional and imminent, an examination and a celebration of family and community in all weathers, the beautiful as well as the less clement conditions. This collection is a very moving tribute, to the girls and the women, the boys and the men, and the loving trouble that has forever transpired between us.â€,â€“ Joanne Arnott,â€œFrom a mixed-blood MÃ©tis woman with Mennonite roots, Kate weaves a story that winds its way through the north end (Nor-tend) of Winnipeg. Itâ€™s a story of death, birth, survival, beauty and ugliness; through it all there are glimmers of hope, strength, and a will to survive whatever this city throws at you.â€ â€“ Duncan Mercredi
Poetry,Cultural,Canada,Female Authors,Fiction,Poetry Plays,Literature,Canadian Literature
North End Love Songs