Never Mind
- Author Name: Katherine Lawrence
- Award Year: 2017
- Publisher: Turnstone Press
- Publication Date: 2016
- ISBN: 9780888015594
- Author Website: http://www.katherinelawrence.net/
- Tags: Shortlist: Book of the Year Award, Shortlist: Saskatoon Book Award
About the Book
In Never Mind, Katherine Lawrence constructs a centuries-old immigrant tale that is fiercely feminist, surprisingly modern, and darkly funny. The voice in these exquisite poems is a 19th century woman who straddles both old and new worlds as she navigates her own interior landscape. Observations are wry, intimate, and shot with musicality. This muscular collection pays tribute to the long poem while extending the tradition with fragments from letters, diary entries, sketches, dialogue, and an ongoing communion with the natural world. "Who knocks?" asks Wife in Never Mind. "Maple leaves reddened with gossip--Come in."
About the Author
Never Mind is Katherine Lawrence's third collection of poetry. The manuscript won the 2015 John V. Hicks Long Manuscript Award and the 2014 City of Regina Writing Award. Her previous collections have been equally honoured. Originally from Hamilton, Ontario, Katherine chairs Access Copyright Foundation, and is a former president of the Sage Hill Writing Experience board of directors. She moved to Saskatchewan in 1982 and currently lives in Saskatoon with her husband.