A book in which some of our best writers address their own losses — and help us endure our own... A heartbreaking, comforting and beautiful collection of true stories about grief and mourning from some of Canada's best known writers. When Jean Baird's daughter, Bronwyn, died suddenly, Jean's deep instinct was to turn to books to help her in her time of sudden loss. Although she found that the thoughts of counselors, psychologists, Buddhists, and self-help gurus were perhaps some help, the works that truly reached to the heart of the matter were by literary writers, largely from the UK and the…mehr
A book in which some of our best writers address their own losses — and help us endure our own... A heartbreaking, comforting and beautiful collection of true stories about grief and mourning from some of Canada's best known writers. When Jean Baird's daughter, Bronwyn, died suddenly, Jean's deep instinct was to turn to books to help her in her time of sudden loss. Although she found that the thoughts of counselors, psychologists, Buddhists, and self-help gurus were perhaps some help, the works that truly reached to the heart of the matter were by literary writers, largely from the UK and the US. Scanning the Canadian landscape, Jean and her husband George Bowering found elegies and tributes, but little from our writers about the person who is left behind to mourn or what it takes to endure grieving. The Heart Does Break — an anthology of twenty original pieces — sets out to fill that gap.
Jean Baird has been an English professor, magazine publisher, consultant for non-profit organizations, and creative director of Canada Book Week for the Writers’ Trust of Canada. George Bowering is a poet, novelist, essayist, critic, historian and editor. In 2002 he was appointed Canada’s first Parliamentary Poet Laureate. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada.
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Introduction
MAY I BRING YOU SOME TEA? George Bowering Bronwyn Jean Dixon
TASTING MY FATHER Brian Brett Leonard Francis Brett
THE EMBRACE Catherine Bush Raymond Sydney Bush
THERE IS NO GOOD IN A BLACK NIGHT Austin Clarke Gladys Irene Clarke Luke
THE BAGGAGE HANDLER George Elliott Clarke William Clarke
ON THE MATERIAL, or, GAIL'S BOOKS Stephen Collis Gail Victoria Tulloch
THIS GENTLEMAN, bpNichol Frank Davey bpNichol
WAITING TO GRIEVE Endre Farkas Margit Farkas
MY FATHER'S BLUE SKIES Brian Fawcett Duncan Hartley Fawcett
HER GREAT ART Jill Frayne June Callwood
ON PREPARING MY DAUGHTER'S FICTION FOR POSTHUMOUS PUBLICATION Joan Givner Emily Jane Givner
WITHOUT WORDS Hiromi Goto Naoe Kiyokawa and Tiger Goto
JUST CREMATION Marni Jackson Clyde Bruce Jackson
FURIOUS HUNGER Linda McNutt Dorothy James
A YEAR LATER, I AM IN LILAC NOW Erín Moure Mary Irene Moure
THE BLUESMAN Paul Quarrington Mary Ormiston Quarrington
THE ART OF DYING IN PRISON Stephen Reid Paddy Mitchell
GOOGLING THE BARDO Renee Rodin Chompoonut (Jeab) Kobram
WHAT WILL NOT BURY Anne Stone Rob Allen
GOOD GRIEF William Whitehead Timothy Findley
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