SIGNS AGAINST AN EMPTY SKY, A Collection of Poetry by Stephen Hume (1st Ed. SIGNED)

Author: Stephen Hume. Published by Quadrant Editions, Dunvegan, ON., 1980, 1st Edition (1981, 2nd Printing). SIGNED and dedicated by the Author. Printed in Canada by The Porcupine's Quill. Almost New Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with light cover wear. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inch, 77 pages.  

SIGNS AGAINST AN EMPTY SKY, A Collection of Poetry by Stephen Hume, is an unusual first book of poems, one that is both a celebration of place and an evocation of historical process.

The place is mostly Canada, North and West, but also anywhere that man has scratched his name or erected stones to mark his passing; the process includes those games of love and war, the personal and the tribal, that constitute man's beautiful, but tragically brief and poignant, dance upon the earth.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Stephen Hume was raised in fishing, farming and logging communities across Alberta and BC and studied at the University of Victoria. A journalist for over 35 years, Hume was editor-in-chief at the Edmonton Journal before moving to BC to become columnist and feature writer for the Vancouver Sun. He has won more than a dozen awards for his poetry, essays and journalism, including the Writers Guild of Alberta Literary Award, the Southam President's Award and the Marjorie Nichols Memorial Award. Stephen became the first Canadian to win the Dolly Connelly prize for environmental writing. His other books include Raincoast Chronicles 20: Lilies and Fireweed, Bush Telegraph and Off the Map, which was shortlisted for a Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Book Prize. He currently teaches professional writing at the University of Victoria.

1st Edition & Signed by Author  

ISBN: 9780864950004  

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