This Is a Small Northern Town
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Winner of the 2009 Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry/Prix Lansdowne de poésie
This is a small northern town is the long awaited, first full-length collection of poems by Rosanna Deerchild. These are poems about what it means to be from the north; a town divided along colour lines; and a family dealing with its history of secrets. At its core—this collection is about the life of a Cree girl and the places she finds comfort and escape.
Excerpt:
cousin comes in from the bush
still half-cut from all night partying
my cousin wakes me at 7 am
n’chi mis he says in slurred cree
let’s go for breakfast
i wear my dawn-yellow sun dress
his name is Boy-Who-Is-Always-Smiling
his name is Laughter-In-My-Heart
his name is Always-Holds-My-Hand
Rosanna Deerchild is Cree from South Indian Lake, Manitoba. Her poetry has appeared in a number of literary magazines including Prairie Fire and CV2. Her work is anthologized in Post-prairie: An Anthology of New Poetry (Talonbooks, 2005) and Strong Women Stories: Native Vision and Community Survival (Sumach Press, 2003). She is the co-founder and remains a member of the Aboriginal Writers Collective established in 1999. The collective, a group of Manitoba writers, has released two collections in print, urban kool and Bone Memory, and a live spoken word CD, Red City.
For the last ten years, Rosanna has worked in print, radio and television journalism, specializing in Aboriginal issues, including several years as a producer and journalist for APTN. She has also performed live comedy and has written book reviews for the Winnipeg Free Press. Rosanna currently works a broadcaster with NCI-FM and is a regular columnist with CBC.
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