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		Narrated by Anita Best with trumpet and flugelhorn by Patrick Boyle Female 101 years old Newfoundland Canada Last Login: 8/10/2008

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General	Poetry, English literature, Canadian literature, CanLit, Newfoundland and Labrador, oral history, oral traditions, the spoken word, Newfoundland dialect, Newfoundland speech, variations in the English lanuguage, Dictionary of Newfoundland English, libraries, librarians, archives, archivists, folklore, folklorists, linguistics, audio books, talking books, audio recordings of the spoken word MyFlashFetish.com.
Music	Anita Best Patrick Boyle
Books	Books by Mary Dalton *Merrybegot* Originally published in 2004 by Signal Editions, Véhicule Press Winner of the 2005 E.J. Pratt Award for Poetry Shortlisted for both the Pat Lowther Award for Poetry and the Winterset Award Unabridged audio edition Rattling Books, 2005 Narrated by Anita Best Trumpet and flugelhorn by Patrick Boyle

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Merrybegot
by Mary Dalton

The unabridged audio edition Performed by Anita Best with Patrick Boyle on trumpet and flugelhorn.

Born of a cultural tradition rooted in story and song, Mary Dalton’s Merrybegot celebrates the poetic cadence and phrasing of the Newfoundland vernacular through a series of short dramatic monologues. These poems reel like an outlandish jig or spark and smoke like dry boughs flung upon a campfire. They are impassioned, sullen, outspoken or conspiratorial; each voice arresting in its idiosyncratic delivery, each story an element in the creation of a vivid and distinctive portrait of a people and a culture.

Mary Dalton

Mary Dalton was born at Lake View in Conception Bay, Newfoundland. She is Professor of English in the Department of English Literature and Language at Memorial University in St. John’s, where she teaches various poetry courses. Her poems, reviews, essays and interviews have been published in journals and anthologies in Canada, Ireland and the United States, most recently in Open Field: Contemporary Canadian Poets, released by Persea Books of New York in April 2005. Mary is a former editor of Tickle Ace and of the interdisciplinary journal Newfoundland Studies.

Mary Dalton has published three volumes of poetry, The Time of Icicles (Breakwater, 1989 and 1991), Allowing the Light (Breakwater, 1993) and Merrybegot (Véhicule Press, Signal Editions, 2003), in addition to a chapbook of poems also entitled Merrybegot (Running the Goat Books and Broadsides, 2002). Another collection is forthcoming from Véhicule in the spring of 2006. She has won various awards for her poetry, among them the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Competition for Poetry in 1997 and again in 2002 and the inaugural TickleAce/Cabot Award for Poetry in 1998. Merrybegot was shortlisted for the 2004 all-genre Winterset Award, the 2004 Pat Lowther Memorial Poetry Award, and is the winner of the 2005 E.J. Pratt Poetry Award, the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Poetry.

Selected Book Reviews:

These are fast poems. They slip by quickly, yet once gone, still hold hard to the ear and tongue. They’re a mix of curse and blessing, the poems feathered as clean as newborn swallows as they dip and weave in the winsome cadences and idioms of Newfoundland. They are like something overheard in the street or at a table in a bar just after it opens, short as a joke and deep as a charm. [These poems] lift us from the obviously crafted, intellectual poem to an art that echoes the best of William Butler Yeats’s late poems, where he gave up artifice for the simplicity of joy and beauty.
—Patrick Lane, The Globe and Mail

The best pure discovery [among the poets in the American anthology of contemporary Canadian poetry, Open Field]—the most original poet whom almost no U.S. readers will know—comes from perhaps the least urban locale: the place is Lake View, Newfoundland, the poet Mary Dalton, whose spiky, dialect-strewn verse animates passionate fishermen, overworked wives, nearly pre-industrial hardships, and striking figures of speech.
—Stephen Burt, The Yale Review

It is a language festival, a lark, a goof-off of words. It is the love of saying....Hear this poetry. Dalton has a marvellous ear for speech, and every poem claims a hold on the ear....If your contact with Newfoundland is mostly with starchy Rex Murphy, I’d recommend a copy of Merrybegot.
—Andrew Vaisius, Prairie Fire

Merrybegot yields a series of brilliant-cut verbal surfaces...[the] lines speak for themselves far better than they can be spoken for. The best I can do is indicate the poignant imagery, sharp wit and effective concision of Dalton’s words....Poem after delightful poems follows...Perhaps most importantly, one has the sense of coming into contact with a living language, its cultural history strongly present alongside its cultural immediacy....Dalton’s craftsmanship is impeccable.
—Asa Boxer, Books in Canada

Merrybegot's language is fresh, sharp, musical, and loaded with meaning. At times the poems create the slightly hair-raising effect that you get when language performs in new and slightly unusual ways. How is it that they manage to have both a curatorial and experimental feel? Ultimately these “small monologues” are true love poems to place. They will stand whatever time throws at them....
—Patrick Warner, The Fiddlehead

This tight sequence of terse dramatic monologues in Newfoundland dialect is a remarkable piece of poetic compression. Besides being meditations on the idioms of Mary Dalton’s home province, these minimalist poems manage, with a few brushstrokes, to paint a complex picture of an outport community, with all its heavy weather, tightly knit co-operation, vicious gossip, love , misery, lust and bigotry. This is poetry that, in its unsentimental fidelity to local linguistic and social details, fashions a world readily apprehended by any mainlander.
—Zachariah Wells, maisonneuve

Steering clear of sentimentality, [Dalton’s] love of place emerges not by way of romanticized exposition but through the crusty, irreverent monologues of the inhabitants themselves, their language distilled to its purest, most potent essence. [Merrybegot is] the lively offspring of oral language and western text, a hybrid of rhythms that refuses to stray “too far from music.”
—Carolyn Marie Souaid, The Montreal Gazette

...a real find...Dalton is sharp, insistent and dramatic.
—Thomas McCarthy, The Irish Times

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Audio Reviews:

From AudioFile magazine:

A marriage of words and music, this collection of poems by Newfoundland author Mary Dalton is performed by two artists, narrator Anita Best and horn player Patrick Boyle. The poems are a fresh experience, a tour of a country told in its language. The lines ring with description--of fish and berry pails; social commentary, jokes, and insults--which is highlighted and punctuated by music. Anita Best has a smooth, deep voice that creates the necessary immediacy for engaging the listener in experiencing each poem. Patrick Boyle is gifted in expressing ideas through trumpet and flugelhorn, sometimes tremulous, sometimes mocking.
R.F. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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Bukowski's LA	Jun 1 2008 12:03 AM bonjour.
The Smoking Poet	Feb 4 2008 3:28 AM Call for submissions going on now...
Rattling Books	Jan 2 2008 5:37 PM I resolve: firstly: to shive all lewardly pishogues yaffled into this drung of a world by hangishores believing in boo darbies secondly: to juggle four waddocks on the bawn and teach my merrybegot to do the same before thirdly and lastly: I quit this droke peopled by nuzzle tripes, marl on out to the blue drop and hang with the bawks and guds.
Bloody Awful Poetry - BUY ADVANCE TIX HERE!	Nov 13 2007 9:14 AM Another weekend of Bloody Awful Poetry is fast approaching us! On Saturday 17th November at the wondrous watering hole that is Nambucca, we have the bouncetabulous Dexter headlining, with awesome supports in the likes of the tremendous Rum Shebeen, the folktastic The Prelude and the terrific Milk Kan The very next day, we relax and sip dry sherry at the marvelous Monkey Chews. And are joined by another 4 splendid acts. Friends Of The Bride, Looker, Jon Byrne and Marcus Mumford. So, come join us for a bevvy. Lets pull on our dancing shoes, tie our dicky bows, and ply ourselves with enough alcohol to sink a small Oliver Reed. Also, go enter our bloody awful poetry competition. Just post some of your truly terrible poetry on our page. The worst wins. Its simple! xx
x	Sep 21 2007 3:28 PM Best wishes and Happy Birthday!
River Rouge Public Library	Sep 17 2007 2:59 PM Happy birthday!
Scott Grant Eckert - Poetry	Sep 14 2007 8:59 PM Happy Birthday... Hope you have a great one...
Adirondack Center for Writing	Jul 30 2007 8:30 PM Keep up the good work!
Cherie Pyne	Jul 27 2007 6:05 PM hey thanks for the support! cherie
Umsvif	Jul 27 2007 2:57 PM hey thanx for the request! You are welcome to our circle of friends, and feel free to stop by at any time at Umsvif's space to listen and enjoy! :) Greetings from Iceland Guðný Lára & Stefán Örn
The Northerners	Jul 27 2007 2:19 AM Hey, thanks for the add. The audio clips I hear sound great; I'm going to have to check out some of the work good luck! E
Terri Binion	Jul 21 2007 3:02 PM thank you for your beautiful living with words. t
Al Purdy	Jul 20 2007 6:34 PM You could smell The smouldering, sparry, Whenever they met yes you can -
Brooklyn College Library	Jul 16 2007 7:41 PM Good words. Good sound. Thanks for the Add. The Brooklyn College Library
nick	Jul 14 2007 10:41 AM thank you for sharing impressive write uos your book has a peel ing
Heather Fowler	Jul 13 2007 5:47 AM Thanks for the add. I love the elegance of your page. :) Warmest and best, H
bluemonsoon	Jul 12 2007 12:30 PM Dear Mary, Thank you for the invite. ~ bluemonsoon.
GUD Magazine	Jul 10 2007 10:54 AM Thanks for the add! GUD (pronounced "good") is a print/pdf magazine of 200 pages of genre and literary fiction, poetry, and a splash of art. :) Take a peek at our lineup and teasers; any one story, poem, or article is yours for the asking, just to give you a taste! If you're a writer or artist, check out our submissions guidelines; and if you've published, consider sending us something for review! $3.50 PDF, $10.00 Print.
poetry jack	Jul 10 2007 8:54 AM I love the poetry, I love the voice. Thanks for the add. pjx
Vita Sackville-West	Jul 10 2007 7:08 AM Welcome! -VSW
Down to the Dirt	Jul 9 2007 8:44 PM Something different for your iPod Joel Thomas Hynes writes the Grunge Rock of CanLit. "Hynes captures [dialogue] masterfully...Raunchy, humorous and energetic...A gritty, moving portrait of growing up - or trying to, anyway." Publisher's Weekly Down to the Dirt By Joel Thomas Hynes Unabridged audio edition rattlingbooks.com literature to listen to
it's poetry if I say so	Jul 9 2007 5:53 PM thanks for the add :-) I liked the audio, must say the accent melds itself very well to the poetry xx
Terry Lynn	Jul 4 2007 4:32 PM simply beautiful I enjoyed the audio sample very much, and your poetry immensely. I had the pleasure of living in Newfoundland for 2 years when I was in the Navy. Lovely people, the Newfoundlanders. May the muses continue to inspire. Terry Lynn
SAM PARR	Jun 22 2007 2:27 PM To Mary and the crew at Merrybegot, Thanks for the request and support! This is just a quick note to say 'Welcome, great to know you!' Feel free to stop by my space when you have time for a good listen and let me know what you think, and I’ll gladly say a proper hello! If I take a little while to write back, it’s only because I want to make sure I have the time to really check out what's new on your space. Until then... Keep living, keep loving, keep laying down that poetry. Sam .......

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