Kate Braid
For fifteen years poet Kate Braid worked off the coast of British Columbia in construction - a field dominated then, and now, by men. Accompanied by musician Clyde Reed, Braid reads here from her collection Turning Left to the Ladies – an autobiographical account of her experiences building homes and high rises, moving from apprentice to journeyman carpenter, living in a man's country. Ever wonder what it is like when the dirtiest guy on the job is a woman in pink?
Kate Braid's poetry collection Turning Left to the Ladies can be purchased at your local independent bookstore or online from these retailers:
Kate Braid has published the biography Emily Carr: Rebel Artist and five books of poetry: Covering Rough Ground, which won the Pat Lowther Award, To This Cedar Fountain, nominated for the BC Poetry Book Prize, Inward to the Bones: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Journey with Emily Carr, winner of the Vancity Book Prize, A Well-Mannered Storm: The Glenn Gould Poems and, most recently, Turning Left to the Ladies. She also co-edited In Fine Form: The Canadian Anthology of Form Poetry. (APRIL 2010)
