Richardson’s Roundup: Karen Connelly, Lorna Crozier & Brian Brett
Bill Richardson returns to chat up three entertaining authors who have published personal non-fiction. Brian Brett (Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life), Karen Connelly (Burmese Lessons) and Lorna Crozier (Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir) engage in a far-ranging conversation with Richardson about the diaries that places seem to keep about themselves and the ways writers access the life of places as varied as the jungles of Burma and rural family farms.
Brian Brett's Trauma Farm, Karen Connelly's Burmese Lessons and Lorna Crozier's Small Beneath the Sky are available from your local independent bookseller or online from these retailers:
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Karen Connelly’s first book of poetry, The Small Words in My Body, won the Pat Lowther Award. Her first book of prose, Touch the Dragon: A Thai Journal, won a Governor General’s Literary Award for non-fiction. The Lizard Cage, Connelly’s first novel, won Britain’s Orange Broadband Prize for New Writers and was shortlisted for both the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Connelly’s latest book, Burmese Lessons, is an autobiographical account of the time she spent in Burma in the late 1990s. She lives in Toronto. (APRIL 2010)
Lorna Crozier has received numerous awards for her 15 books of poetry, which include The Blue Hour of the Day, Whetstone and Apocrypha of Light. She has also edited anthologies, among them Desire in Seven Voices and, with Patrick Lane, Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast. Her most recent book, Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir, is a tender, unsparing portrait of Crozier’s own family and hometown. (APRIL 2010)
Brian Brett is the author of Uproar’s Your Only Music—a Globe and Mail Book of the Year—and several books of poetry. His journalism has appeared in major Canadian newspapers, including the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star and The Vancouver Sun. He lives on Trauma Farm on Salt Spring Island. (APRIL 2010)
