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All of it is true. Even the Lies.
Hard Light: 32 Little Stories
A Selection of poems from Hard Light by Michael Crummey, originally published by Brick Books 1998
Read by Michael Crummey, Ron Hynes and Deidre Gillard-Rowlings.
Hard Light: 32 Little Stories is a retelling and reinvention of tales told to Michael Crummey by his father and other family members about outport Newfoundland and the Labrador fishery of a half-century ago. It’s a love-letter to a world and a way of life that has vanished completely in the last fifty years. All of it is true. Even the lies.
Michael Crummey
Raised in Buchans, Newfoundland and in Wabush, Labrador, Michael Crummey won the inaugural Bronwen Wallace competition in 1994 for most promising Canadian poet under the age of thirty-five who has not yet published a first book. His first collection of poems, Arguments with Gravity, was published in 1996 and won the Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Poetry. Crummey’s first foray into fiction came with the publication of a collection of short stories, Flesh & Blood, in 1998. That same year, his second book of poems, Hard Light was released to general acclaim. Since then he has published a best-selling, Giller Prize-nominated novel, a further collection of poems and a work of non-fiction with photographs by Greg Locke. Having lived for a number of years in Kingston, Ontario, Michael Crummey now makes his home in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
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poets, fishermen, truckers, librarians, readers, writers, authors, publishers, audio book lovers, audio book listeners, audio literature fans, poetry lovers, Newfoundlanders, Labradorians, Icelanders, residents of Irland, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. English speakers anywhere who relish stories and poetry and their telling.
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