Jeanette Lynes
Jeanette Lynes grew up in rural southwestern Ontario. She has lived in Toronto, Edmonton, Vancouver and Thunder Bay, among other places. She has published three collections of poetry, A Woman Alone on the Atikokan Highway, Wolsak and Wynn, 1999; Left Fields, Wolsak and Wynn, 2003 and The Aging Cheerleaders Alphabet, Mansfield Press, 2003. She received the Bliss Carman Poetry Award in 2001, and her poems are frequently broadcast on CBC Radio. Jeanette has been Pathy Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at Princeton University, and is currently teaching at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.
Books by this author
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April 2009
80 pages | ISBN 978-1-894987-31-8
$17.00
Lynes distills Canada into poetry; curling, spring in Saskatoon and grape vines in Antigonish weave the country into the book.
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January 2003
88 pages | ISBN 0-919897-88-6
$15.00
Left Fields, Jeanette Lynes's second collection of poetry with Wolsak and Wynn, consolidates her reputation for writing clear-eyed, accessible and deadly funny poetry.
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January 1999
87 pages | ISBN ISBN: 0-919897-68-1
$15.00
At its best, poetry is the true vocabulary of experience. Jeanette Lynes's poems - visceral and full of heart - return the power of the ordinary and extraordinary moments of life with language that is vivid, humorous, intensely felt. - Helen Humphreys
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