Types of Canadian Women is a fantastical poetic rewriting of a 1903 biographical dictionary "of Women Who Are or Have Been Connected with Canada." Intriguing details from the biographies of little-known women are blown out of proportion, and the women tell the stories of their own larger-than-life exploits. The book is illustrated with historical photographs of women from Canadian archives and from the author's own collection. Types of Canadian Women was published by Gaspereau Press in Fall 2006. It has been shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award (for best poetry book of the year by a Canadian woman).

Click here to see an entry from the original 1903 Types of Canadian Women.

Click here to see some of the author's collection of historical portraits of women - some of which are reproduced in the book.

 

 

External links:

• buy Types of Canadian Women at chapters.indigo.ca
• buy Types of Canadian Women at Northwest Passages
• buy Types of Canadian Women at amazon.com
• review at Rambles.net
• review in This Magazine
• review in Quill & Quire
• article (based on interview) in Vue Weekly
• review at rabble.ca
• some comments at Taddle Creek
• contact Gaspereau Press
• catalogue copy
• PDF of The Beloit Poetry Journal, in which a poem from Types of Canadian Women appears
• some comments the above poem, embedded in a review of The Beloit Poetry Journal
• issue of ottawater in which poems from Types of Canadian Women appear (choose "second issue")
• interview with K.I. Press in ottawater about the book, and other books (choose "third issue")