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Seven of his novels, Bearstone, Downriver, The Big Wander, Beardance, Far North, The Maze, and Jason's Gold, were named Best Books for Young Adults by the American Library Association. WILL HOBBS is the author of seventeen novels for upper elementary, middle school and young adult readers, as well as two picture book stories. ![]() ![]() The chapters consist of accounts of these births, each ending with a diary entry to validate the new child delivered into a troubled world, babies both white and black. ![]() Many of Patience’s mothers cannot pay for her services, but this is her calling now: helping babies into the world. ![]() Kelly expires suddenly, Patience is alone on the small farm she inherits, with no friends, few reserve supplies and Kelly’s midwife instruments.Įvents move swiftly as the Depression settles a mantle of suffering over the country. Sorrow is familiar to Patience, having also lost her first lover and infant baby to death. Kelly took the frightened woman into her home after Patience (really Elizabeth Snyder) fled Pennsylvania, where her union-activist husband was killed in a deadly conflict between police and mine workers. Newly arrived in Union County, Patience has been the beneficiary of her mentor’s generosity. The protagonist, midwife Patience Murphy, attests to that in the beginning of her tale: “Love, birth, death, my trilogy.” This novel reads like a memoir, filled with the tales of women giving birth during the depression in West Virginia, the poverty and squalor of lives in crisis, as mines collapse and families hunker together for survival. ![]() Book review: Patricia Harman's *The Midwife of Hope River* ![]() ![]() ![]() It acts as a spirit of ‘subversion’ in the syntax and structure of my poems. Homosexuality is more like the ‘genes’ of my work. My poems often deal with sexuality and love, although I have moved away from explicit descriptions of sex and desire. Tell us about your works…My work deals with homosexuality, identity and desire. Nicholas, your latest collection Crevasse is up for the Lammy. We’re hoping our hometown hero becomes an internationally award-winning one when the champions are announced in New York on June 6… While the subgenre of gay poetry remains underrepresented in Hong Kong, Wong – who writes in English, his second language – has made a name for himself across the Pacific as an emerging Asian voice in the field. Among the nominees this year – who must have works published in the USA to qualify – is Hong Kong born-and-bred poet Nicholas Wong, who, in addition to teaching creative writing at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, is one of only two Asian finalists in the Gay Poetry category. Affectionately known as the ‘Lammys’, the awards – now in their 28th year – recognise excellence in LGBTI literature, honouring both long-established publishers as well as emerging voices. The nominees have just been announced for this year’s international Lambda Literary Awards. Having just been nominated for a leading LGBTI literature award, he talks with Féliks Cheang about his latest collection and how anyone can read his poetry Hongkonger Nicholas Wong is becoming a leading voice in the world of queer poetry. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With a single breath, he blew a cloud of blue powder from his palm, which expanded and grew around me like a thundercloud. The man in the pale overcoat gave me a smile as he pulled away and lifted his hand to his lips. What does he want from her? And why does North’s worn enemy seem fascinated by Sydelle himself?” But North has secrets-about himself, about why he chose Sydelle, about his real reasons for the journey. North needs an assistant, and Sydelle is eager to see the country-and to join him on his quest to stop the war that surely will destroy her home. Just as the rains come after ten long, dry years, a young wizard, Wayland North, appears, to whisk Sydelle Mirabil away from her desert village. “The day the rains came was like any other, blistering air coating the canyon in a heavy stillness…. Brightly Woven is written by Alexandra Bracken. ![]() |