BOOKS
Beauty Everyday:
Stories from Life as it Happens
An anthology of stories by ALBERTA AUTHORS, illustrated with designs, photography and music inspired by the regional landscape.
Each story offers a solution for positive change because the writers have been recognized and included in a new and important way. Wahkotowin. We need to work and live together.
―Dr. Wilton Littlechild, LLB. Representative to UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples. Honorary Chief, Maskwacis Cree; National Truth & Reconciliation Commission.
Beauty Everyday: Stories from Life as it Happens is a magical collection of accounts that chronicle the personal histories of real people who share the experience of living in Alberta’s Battle River Country. Spanning time and the globe, the descriptions of people’s lives are at once heartwarming and sad, inspiring and reflective. Captivating from the beginning, the stories speak to us from the past and provide encourage examples of how adversity can be overcome through the right channeling of the human spirit.
―Ron Sheppard... MA, MLIS. Director, Parkland Regional Library System, Lacombe, Alberta.
Poems from Life as it Happens:
An anthology by BATTLE RIVER WRITERS
With guest contributions by beloved poets such as Mary Oliver, Lorna Crozier, Roger Housden and Diane Buchanan.
The poets have created an anthology steeped in the local-regional things that matter. Rich with the words of known Alberta poets and unknown ones, the book evokes inescapable reflections . . . Its words frame emotions like a house frames a life . . . and we find ourselves breaking out of its words and coming to rest in our own realities.
―George Melnyk, Author of The Literary History of Alberta.
Poems from Life as it Happens has the immediacy and intensity of the moment. It is truly both path-breaking as well as breath-taking. This lyrical project by indigenous artists along with settler, new-comer and life-minded Canadian voices guards and uplifts the union of nature and the creative communities it inspires. They evince an endless capacity to evoke and inspire creativity.
―Jon Kirby, Founder Tamale Institute of Cross Cultural Studies, Accra Ghana
