No of Pages: 80
RRP: 21.95
ISBN Print: 1 876040 45 9
Winterlude
Winterlude is a collection of poetry about migration, language and hybridity. Like Gerry Turcotte’s novel, Flying in Silence, published in 2001 by Brandl & Schlesinger, which was shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year 2001, Winterlude looks at the question of identity and belonging, through a series of poems that focus on the politics of language and migration. What does it mean to be between worlds: French and English, Australian and Canadian, the past and the present? Winterlude is Turcotte’s second collection of poetry. His first collection of poems, Neighbourhood of Memory, was published in London and Australia, and some of its poems were set on the NSW HSC.
About the Author
Gerry Turcotte is a writer and critic from French Canada.
His first novel, Flying in Silence, was published in Canada and Australia and was shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year.
His first collection of poems, Neighbourhood of Memory: Poems 1985–89, was published in London, Denmark and Australia. His most recent publications include Winterlude: Poems (Brandl & Schlesinger) and Hauntings (Five Islands Press). He was one of four writers chosen to perform with a live Jazz Ensemble at the Sydney Opera House in 2002. He also held his first solo photographic exhibition at the Wollongong City Gallery in the same year. The book based on the exhibition and the Opera House performance was published as Border Crossings: Words and Images, by Brandl & Schlesinger in 2004.
Gerry Turcotte is Professor of English and Executive Dean of Arts & Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, Sydney.
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