gesture

a Leaf Press chapbook series
published between
August, 2010 and July, 2011

List of Titles:

The series begins with Sandy Shreve's Cedar Cottage Suite

Aug 8/10 | 5.5 x 8.5 | 28 pp | 978-1-926655-15-4 | $10.00

Wind last night;
I wake to my neighbour sweeping
pink debris

from the poem "Cedar Cottage Suite"

Click here to listen to the poem "Heron in Sunlight" and to see the heron photographs on YouTube

Sandy Shreve has published four poetry collections, most recently Suddenly, So Much (Exile Editions, 2005). She co-edited, with Kate Braid, the groundbreaking anthology In Fine Form – The Canadian Book of Form Poetry (Polestar, 2005); edited Working For A Living, a collection of poems and stories by women about their work (Room of One’s Own, 1988) and founded B.C.’s Poetry in Transit program. Her work has won the Earle Birney Prize for Poetry and been short listed for the Milton Acorn People’s Poetry Award and the National Magazine Awards for poetry. Born in Quebec and raised in Sackville, New Brunswick, she now lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. For more information, visit her website at www.sandyshreve.ca

The cover image for Cedar Cottage Suite is “Heron” by James Johonnot.