I Lost My Talk - Softcover

Joe, Rita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1774710056 ISBN 13: 9781774710050

Publisher: Nimbus Publishing Limited, 2021

Synopsis

Globe & Mail Top 100 selection, 2019

A CBC Best Picture Book of 2019

Shortlisted, 2019 Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association Best Atlantic-Published Book Award w. I'm Finding My talk

Longlisted, First Nations Communities Read, 2020, Children's Award

Jury-selected for the 2018-2020 From Sea to Sea to Sea: Celebrating Indigenous Picture Book collection (IBBY Canada)

About this title

About the Authors

Acclaimed poet Rita Joe (1932--2007) of Whycocomagh First Nation wrote seven books, won numerous awards, and continues to be an influence on poets and other artists across Canada. I Lost My Talk is perhaps Joe's most famous poem, and references her time at the Shubenacadie Residential School. The poem inspired an eponymous multimedia performance at the National Arts Centre in 2016 as well as songs written by Indigenous youth across the country. She is known today as the Poet Laureate of the Mi'kmaq.

Pauline Young is a visual artist who was first exposed to the creative world through her father, Phillip Young, an internationally renowned artist, who painted the bottoms of her feet. She still recalls the smooth sensation of paint oozing between her toes. She draws her inspiration from him and the natural environment and is always looking down to see what the ground can offer, such as incorporating beach sand and red oxide sand into her paintings.

Pauline Young, 880 Route 425, Whitney, NB, E1V 4K4, 506-836-2356

Edition details

• Publisher: Nimbus Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1774710056
• ISBN 13: 9781774710050
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Young Pauline
• Number of pages: 32