![]() 'I want to make a difference': Louise Bernice Halfe on being Canada's first Indigenous parliamentary poet laureateīoan's debut book Undoing Hours is shortlisted for two prizes.Her previous acclaimed books include Burning in this Midnight Dream, Bear Bones & Feathers, Blue Marrow and The Crooked Good. Halfe is Canada's ninth Parliamentary Poet Laureate. Wherever the sly, witty and wise Awâsis (the "illuminated child") turns up, the heart of human experience appears in all its surprising complexity and absurdity." "Their language leaps, does backflips, blazes like a shooting star, sneaks up, announces itself with a belch. "Rambunctious and playful, these vibrant poem-stories laugh and reveal, disrupt and heal," said the jurors in a statement. ![]() Her book explores stories of resistance, rebellion and laughter by way of awâsis, a gender-fluid trickster character who takes readers on a humorous journey of mystery and spirituality. Halfe's awâsis - kinky and dishevelled is on the shortlist for the Raymond Souster Award.
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