"Susan Musgrave has always trusted A.E. Housman's definition of poetry: words that affect us physically, that find their way to something deep inside that is obscure and latent, something older than the present organization of ourselves." ~ Leaf Press

NEW BOOKS:
Susan Musgrave edits new anthology of B.C. women poets         http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/in-the-magazine/susan-musgrave-edits-new-anthology-of-b-c-women-poets/

Given
The characters from Susan Musgrave’s
Cargo of Orchids are back in this brilliantly engaging novel.
Thistledown Press  Available Now 2013

Kiss, Tickle, Cuddle, Hug
by Susan Musgrave a cozy book for babies and toddlers.
ORCA Available Now 2013

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 NEWS:
  May 2013

"Kiss Tickle Cuddle Hug" made, The Canadian Children’s Book Centre,
  Best Books for Kids & Teens  Spring 2013

Update from 2011: Musgrave in particular, in her Governor’s General Award-nominated volume Origami Dove, has broken through to a new level of consciousness. Link: http://www.canada.com/entertainment/books/Poetry+awards+Established +masters+voices+merit+prizes/5767192/story.html

 

  April 2013 to December 2012

Poetry London Presents:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojUkN3CmxpM

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“One Wild Best Friend” on the iLit Digital Collection which has now been posted on the site: www.ilit.ca.

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I am Susan, Hear me Roar

By Jordan Mounteer

Desperately Seeking Susans - A Review.

Taking its title from the 1985 movie about a housewife who gets amnesia and is mistaken for a drifter, Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang’s anthology charts the wildly diverse lives, experiences, and perspectives of Canadian poets exclusively called “Susan”.

http://www.vancouverweekly.com/i-am-susan-hear-me-roar/

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“Essay in “On Freedom, Spirit, Art and State in Manoa: A Pacific Journal"

Essays in On Freedom are by Japanese writer Mutsuo Takahashi, Tibetan Woeser Tsering, and American Phil Choi. Drama is by American writer Catherine Filloux. Fiction is by Chinese writers A Yi and Zhang Yihe; South Asian Sukrita Paul Kumar; Americans Quan Barry and Andrew Lam;
Canadian Susan Musgrave; American Thersa Matsuura, now living in Japan; and Filipino Jose Y. Dalisay Jr. Poetry is by Chinese writer Chen Dongdong; Burmese Khin Aung Aye, Thitsar Ni, and Tin Moe; and Americans W. S. Di Piero, Tess Gallagher, Melissa Kwasny, and Naomi Long.

http://manoaonline.wordpress.com/      OR     http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9065-9780824838553.aspx

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FINALIST SECOND ANNUAL CBC BOOKIE AWARDS, 2012
http://www.cbc.ca/books/2012/03/the-second-annual-cbc-bookie-awards.html

Toronto Public Library Announces 2012 First & Best Booklist the highly anticipated selection of the
year’s best in Canadian books for children from birth to age five that are fun to read and help build early literacy skills. 

KISS, TICKLE, CUDDLE, HUG
http://torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com/news_releases/2012/11/toronto-public-library-announces-2012-first-best-booklist.html

LUSH TRIUMPHANT LITERARY AWARDS COMPEITITION, Subterrain Magazine
First Prize: “The Goodness of this World”
http://subterrain.ca/blog/105/lush-2011-winners

University of Victoria 50th-Anniversary Prize: The Malahat Review
Second Prize: Personal Effects
http://web.uvic.ca/malahat/contests/uvic_anniversary/anniversary_contest.html

FINALIST 2011 GOVERNOR GENERAL’S AWARD FOR POETRY
http://ggbooks.canadacouncil.ca/en/about-apropos/archives/2011/Finalists/origami-dove.aspx

GLOBE 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2011
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/holiday-guide/shopping-list-the-globes-top-100-books-of-2011/article4179463/

Work included in:

111 West Coast Literary Portraits

Photographs by Barry Peterson and Blaise Enright

http://www.mothertonguepublishing.com/?page_id=428

The Salmon Recipes

http://www.watershedsentinel.ca/content/salmon-recipes

Desperately Seeking Susans

http://findingavoiceoncfrcfm.wordpress.com/2012/09/23/september-21-2012