Dazzle Patterns
- Publisher
- Freehand Books
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2017
- Subjects
- World War I, Literary
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781988298191
- Publish Date
- Oct 2017
- List Price
- $10.99
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Description
Beginning the day of the devastating Halifax Explosion of 1917, is an unforgettable story about loss, the resilience of the human spirit, and the transformative power of art.
About the author
Alison Watt's poetry has appeared in many journals, including Prairie Fire, Event, Sub-terrain, and Arc. She is also a painter who works and teaches out of her studio on Protection Island, near Nanaimo. Her first book, The Last Island: A Naturalist's Sojourn on Triangle Island, won the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-fiction. Her book of poetry, Circadia, came out with Pedlar Press in 2005. Dazzle Patterns is her first novel. Both her painting and her writing reflect her background as a biologist and her ongoing preoccupation with the natural world, both as a backdrop to our unfolding lives and in its own aesthetics and intimacies.
Awards
- Short-listed, Alberta Trade Fiction Book of the Year
- Short-listed, Amazon Canada First Novel Award