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Born in Calgary, Alberta, she was raised in Montreal, Quebec. Her poems and personal essays have been widely printed and anthologized. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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A Well-Mannered Storm: The Glenn Gould Poems
(Selected for Poetry in Transit 2009 A Well-Mannered Stor...)
Selected for Poetry in Transit 2009 A Well-Mannered Storm is an exploration of loose correspondence between one of Canada's greatest musicians, Glenn Gould, and "K," an admiring fan. Braid weaves an intimate dynamic as K struggles with the loss of her hearing in one ear, finding her greatest comfort in Gould's music--particularly when he plays Bach. Gould's poems don't directly reply, but they do echo a response as he struggles with his own difficult life; his family, his health, his strong beliefs in how music should be presented and his personal habits considered "eccentric" by an ever-watchful press. K starts to accept her changing world, just as Gould begins a downward spiral into disintegration. In his final reflection, Gould acknowledges that in spite of his personal trials, his music now circles the world in the spacecraft Voyager as Earth's example to other possible life forms of what is most beautiful in this civilization. A Well-Mannered Storm is a striking and masterful volume of poems that does justice to Gould's brilliance, offering insights into his personal life and art, even as it showcases Braid's own virtuosity.
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(Well-Mannered Storm: The Glenn Gould Poems) Author: Kate Braid published on (October, 2008)
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Covering Rough Ground by Kate Braid (2014) Paperback
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Covering Rough Ground
( Winner of the Pat Lowther Award for Poetry, Kate Braid ...)
Winner of the Pat Lowther Award for Poetry, Kate Braid tracks the journey of a woman who wants, innocently enough, to build things. She explores the joy of physical labor and the struggle to be a tradeswoman in a "man's world."
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Kate Braid
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A Well-Mannered Storm: The Glenn Gould Poems
(Selected for Poetry in Transit 2009 A Well-Mannered Stor...)
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Covering Rough Ground
( Winner of the Pat Lowther Award for Poetry, Kate Braid ...)
- (Well-Mannered Storm: The Glenn Gould Poems) Author: Kate Braid published on (October, 2008)
- Covering Rough Ground by Kate Braid (2014) Paperback
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A Well-Mannered Storm: The Glenn Gould Poems
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Pat Lowther Award
The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman.The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman.