The Essential Elizabeth Brewster Poetry Sidewalk Flowers won the Governor

Sidewalk Flowers won the Governor General’s Award for Illustrated Children’s Books in 2015

heartbreak

This is a compassionate and skillful meditation

sends fragments of memory ricocheting into sensuous poems that arrange themselves

The Essential Elizabeth Brewster Poetry Sidewalk Flowers won the GovernorIn The Essential Elizabeth Brewster, questioning, conversational poetry melds the private and the collective, exploring the challenges of constructing selfhood and voicing historically silenced female perspectives. Despite an impressive post secondary education and a body of work that spans more than twenty books and seven decades, Elizabeth Brewsters quiet humility in the face of all that tradition of the Western literary canon belies her