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It's Hard Being Queen

The Dusty Springfield Poems

by (author) Jeanette Lynes

Publisher
Freehand Books
Initial publish date
Sep 2008
Subjects
Entertainment & Performing Arts, Pop Vocal, Canadian
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  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781990601453
    Publish Date
    Sep 2008
    List Price
    $9.99

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Description

In this, her fourth book of poetry, one of Canada’s best-loved poets takes on one of the most compelling divas of our time.

About the author

It's Hard Being Queen: The Dusty Springfield Poems is Jeanette Lynes` fourth collection of poetry. Her previous collections are Left Fields (Wolsak and Wynn, 2003, shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award), The Aging Cheerleader’s Alphabet (Mansfield Press, 2003), and A Woman Alone on the Atikokan Highway (Wolsak and Wynn, 1999). Her awards include the Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize, the Bliss Carman Award, and first prize in the Grain Postcard Story Competition. She has been a visiting artist / writer-in-residence at Queen’s University, Northern Lights College in Dawson Creek, and the Saskatoon Public Library, as well as a faculty member of Francis Xavier University and the Sage Hill Writing Experience. She is currently co-editor of The Antigonish Review.Jeanette Lynes grew up on a farm in Alice Munro country while "Son of a Preacher Man" played on transistor radios everywhere.

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