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Bren Simmers’s Pivot Point is a lyrical account of a nine-day wilderness canoe trip through the Bowron Lakes canoe circuit in British Columbia. At the heart of the expedition are three young women, friends whose lives seem at risk of drifting apart as they approach middle age. While buoyed by the pleasures of adventure and camaraderie, and by a deep reverence for nature, Simmers finds herself struggling to inhabit the trip’s trickier elements―storms, insects, physical fatigue, conflict, doubt, and disorientation―and, as with the challenges and changes in her own life, to embrace them with confidence. Recounted in a journal-entry style with poems interleaving each day’s narrative, Pivot Point is a frank reflection on the roles friendship, mindfulness, and creativity play in the evolution of our lives.
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Bren Simmers is the author of four poetry collections and a wilderness memoir. She is the winner of the Latner Griffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize, the CBC Poetry Prize and The Malahat Review Long Poem Prize. Her latest book, The Work (Gaspereau Press, 2024), won the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Awards and the J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award. She lives on Epekwitk/PEI where she is the current Poet Laureate.
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Bren Simmers’s Pivot Point is a lyrical account of a nine-day wilderness canoe trip through the Bowron Lakes canoe circuit in British Columbia. At the heart of the expedition are three young women, friends whose lives seem at risk of drifting apart as they approach middle age. While buoyed by the pleasures of adventure and camaraderie, and by a deep reverence for nature, Simmers finds herself struggling to inhabit the trip’s trickier elements―storms, insects, physical fatigue, conflict, doubt, and disorientation―and, as with the challenges and changes in her own life, to embrace them with confidence. Recounted in a journal-entry style with poems interleaving each day’s narrative, Pivot Point is a frank reflection on the roles friendship, mindfulness, and creativity play in the evolution of our lives.
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Pivot Point (signed)
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Gaspereau Press, Printers and Publishers, Kentville, Nova Scotia, 2019
ISBN 10: 1554472008
ISBN 13: 9781554472000
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Emma FitzGerald (Illustrator) (illustrator). 1st Edition. pictorial paper wraps,106 pages : illustrations, map, signed in ink on title "for Kathy-in friendship -ben,"a fine copy with publishers band on back wrap. "Bren Simmers's 'Pivot Point' is a lyrical account of a nine-day wilderness canoe trip through the Bowron Lakes canoe circuit in British Columbia. At the heart of the expedition are three young women, friends whose lives seem at risk of drifting apart as they approach middle age. While buoyed by the pleasures of adventure and camaraderie, and by a deep reverence for nature, Simmers finds herself struggling to inhabit the trip's trickier elements - storms, insects, physical fatigue, conflict, doubt, and disorientation - and, as with the challenges and changes in her own life, to embrace them with confidence. Recounted in a journal-entry style with poems interleaving each day's narrative, 'Pivot Point' is a frank reflection on the roles friendship, mindfulness, and creativity play in the evolution of our lives."--taken from dustcover jacket flap Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author on tp. Book. Seller Inventory # 1125558137
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