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Most Vocal poets presents local poets and Susan Musgrave. Susan Musgrave has published poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and
children’s literature. Her most recent titles include: You’re in Canada
Now...A Memoir of Sorts (essays, Thistledown Press); Cargo of Orchids
(novel, Knopf), which became a national bestseller; and What the Small
Day Cannot Hold: Collected Poems 1970-1985 (poetry, Beach Holme).
Musgrave is also an editor, and has lent her writing ability to film
and music. Her projects have won numerous awards that are as diverse as
the bp Nichol Poetry Chapbook Award and the National Film Board�s
Kathleen Shannon Award. Musgrave was included in the 2008-2009 Royal BC
Museum Free Spirit Project that featured the province’s most famous and
infamous people. Musgrave divides her time between Vancouver Island and
the Queen Charlotte Islands.
When the World Is Not Our Home
ISBN 978-1-897235-67-6; paper; $16.95; 80 pages, trade paper; September 2009