Pattern of Genes - Softcover

Rosalee Van Stelten

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0968490328 ISBN 13: 9780968490327

Publisher: Frontenac House, 2001

Synopsis

Pattern of Genes examines a life well lived, full of humour and character, but filled also with inescapable losses. These are intensely intimate poems that take us from the poet's childhood in Winnipeg in the Second World War through her experiences as a Wren in the Royal Canadian Navy and as a traveller. There is a spirit of adventure and romance in her work, a vivid sense of time and place, but there is also a pervading elegiac tone as she copes with bereavement and loneliness.

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About the Author

Rosalee van Stelten was born in Thunder Bay, raised in Winnipeg and now lives in Calgary. As a petty officer in the Royal Canadian Navy (Wrens) she travelled across Canada, worked in Buckingham Palace and sailed aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia. Since then she's been variously employed as an apartment manager, a secretary, a court library clerk and the president of a cattle sales and management company. Her work has been widely published in newspapers, periodicals and anthologies, has won several awards and has been translated into Dutch, French and Braille.

Edition details

• Publisher: Frontenac House
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0968490328
• ISBN 13: 9780968490327
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 77