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Erin Knight talks to Ashliegh Gehl about Chaser
Unlike The Sweet Fuels, her first collection of poetry, Chaser is more like one long poem inspired by a handful of texts. Her interest in other people’s mail propelled her to read the letters of John Keats and Katherine Mansfield, taking note that most writers from a certain time period suffered from tuberculosis simply because it was just something everyone seemed to have. But it was in Keats’s letters that she started to tap into the value of his words.
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Trubek points to the origins of the English language as proof of the fact that change is a constant. “Before the mass production of writing, people spelled words many different ways,” she said recently on Day 6. Before then “there were 114 variant spellings of ‘through.’ Shakespeare used seven different ways to spell his name.” Even once the advent of the printing press encouraged spelling convention, linguists argued to make changes to the language.
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His friends have left the stage, and Mowat admits he feels disenfranchised now. He has a hard time finding himself in the new order. “I’m not sure that Canada exists any more,” he said. “That was a time of admirable, livable circumstances. I sense danger. I fear we’ll never have that again.”
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As of 2012, the book award is valued at five thousand dollars and the magazine award is valued at two thousand dollars. Both awards are made available to freelance writers of non-fiction for social justice writing that is exceptionally well written and researched. The Book and Magazine awards provide financial support while the writer completes a book or magazine project for publication.
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