You are invited to meet Poet Rosalee van Stelten who will read from her recent book, Pavlov's Elephant Frontenac House $15.95 | at Beach Books Saturday May 2, 2009 1:30-2:30 pm |
Pavlov's Elephant
In a deft dance of word and form, Rosalee van Stelten evokes landscape and spectacle, sadness and laughter, romance and adventure, and displays an overarching empathy with our world, its creatures great and small.
Pavlov’s Elephant continues the themes Rosalee developed so successfully in Pattern of Genes: the lasting lessons of childhood that go on to shape an entire life; the warmth of family; the keen observations of the world around her; the pleasures of travel. And always there is the keen delight in words and the ingenious use of rhyme and rhythm that infuse every page throughout the book. Pavlov’s Elephant is easily accessible and a pleasure to read, but leaves a strong impression not easily forgotten.
Pattern of Genes
Frontenac House
$13.95
Pattern of Genes examines a life well lived, full of humour and character, but filled also with inescapable losses. These are intensely intimate poems that take us from the poet’s childhood in Winnipeg in the Second World War through her experiences as a Wren in the Royal Canadian Navy and as a traveller. There is a spirit of adventure and romance in her work, a vivid sense of time and place, but there is also a pervading elegiac tone as she copes with bereavement and loneliness.
On February 24th, as part of the 2009 Alberta International Band Festivals (AIBF) Final Concert and Award Ceremony, the Calgary Stampede Showband will premier a new commission that weaves together the poetry of Rosalee van Stelten with the music of composer Kelly-Marie Murphy.
Rosalee van Stelten ... is a widely published free-lance writer whose articles, short fiction and poetry have appeared in newspapers, periodicals, and anthologies in Canada, the United States, and Italy, have won several awards, and have been translated into Dutch, French, and Braille. Her work has been heard on CBC Radio’s Take Five, Morningside, and Alberta Anthology Live, and three of her plays for children were produced by Access Radio in Alberta. Born in Thunder Bay in 1933 and raised in Winnipeg, a Calgarian for many years, Ms. van Stelten now lives in Victoria.
--from the Showband Web site
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