{"id":41173,"date":"2015-05-20T23:35:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T23:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41173"},"modified":"2015-05-20T23:35:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T23:35:11","slug":"north-end-love-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41173","title":{"rendered":"North End Love Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

North End Love Songs<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing<\/a>
\n2012-03-20
\n108 pages
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-1-897289-76-1<\/p>\n

Katherena Vermette<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Winner of the 2013 Governor General’s Award for Poetry.<\/em><\/p>\n

A self-described \u201ctuff grrl with two ffs\u201d there is no doubt that after poet Katherena Vermette\u2019s first collection of poetry, North End Love Songs<\/em>, she will also be known as one \u201ctuff\u201d poet. Chronicling several short lived affairs that follow the break-up of a long term relationship, North End Love Songs<\/em> recounts a quest for love in all wrong places. In it poet Katherena Vermette pulls out all the stops with gritty stripped down lyrics about the kind of love doesn\u2019t always talk nice, sometimes drinks way too much, smokes when it shouldn\u2019t and winds up in bed with people it barely knows or trusts.<\/p>\n

But North End Love Songs<\/em> is more than just a poetic road trip to the wrong side of love. Described by critics as having \u201ca complicated sense of beauty,\u201d there is undeniable eloquence at work in Katherena Vermette\u2019s poetry. These poems go way deeper than the usual explorations of loss and self discovery, grappling with the destructive social and cultural constructs that often keep women on the hunt for solace and stability outside of themselves instead of finding strength within.<\/p>\n

Katherena Vermette is well known in Winnipeg<\/a> for her spoken word and poetry performances. Her poems often feel like songs, sometimes country in tone, and sometimes dark, urban, and alternative. In North End Love Songs<\/em> readers will find a fierce honesty, and resonant clarity that is unique to this fresh, new voice.<\/p>\n

Katherena Vermette is a M\u00e9tis<\/a> writer of poetry and fiction. Her work has appeared in several literary magazines and compilations, including the upcoming Manitoapow\u2014Aboriginal Literary History of Manitoba<\/em> (Highwater Press 2012). Vermette was the 2010-2011 Blogger in Residence for thewriterscollective.org<\/a> and recently begun graduate work in the prestigious Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing program at the University of British Columbia. A member of the Aboriginal Writers Collective of Manitoba<\/a> since 2004, Vermette lives, works and plays in Winnipeg, Manitoba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

North End Love Songs J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing 2012-03-20 108 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-897289-76-1 Katherena Vermette Winner of the 2013 Governor General’s Award for Poetry. A self-described \u201ctuff grrl with two ffs\u201d there is no doubt that after poet Katherena Vermette\u2019s first collection of poetry, North End Love Songs, she will also be known as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,8,1617],"tags":[20104,4863],"class_list":["post-41173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-canada","category-media-archive","category-poetry-books","tag-j-gordon-shillingford-publishing","tag-katherena-vermette"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}