Tuesday, September 16, 2025

the shadow-maker

  

Gwendolyn MacEwen. The SHADOW-MAKER. Macmillan, 1969. 


A find at the Rotary book sale. A Governor-General Award winner from the 60s. I love her use of internal rhyme and the sound of her lines. Favourites are the dream sequences--from The Sleeper section. 

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