Vivian Demuth’s novel, Eyes of the Forest, is available from Banff Book and Art Den, Cafe Books in Canmore, People’s Coop Bookstore in Vancouver, Pages in Calgary, Friends of Jasper Bookstore, The Rabbit Hole in Grande Prairie, www.amazon.com or from Smoky Peace Press at www.smokypeacepress.com Her poetry collection Breathing Nose Mountain is available from St. Marks Books or from www.longshot.org Both books are also available at www.amazon.com Please see Pages for Bio and Contact information
About Breathing Nose Mountain:
“This is a beautiful collection. I read through it thoroughly transported by Vivian Demuth’s Nose Mountain experience and her ability to transpose this into poetry. The opening long invocation poem is a stunner. The poem, ‘Tree Talk,’ that completes the sequence is an excellent place to end, ‘back within’ the experience, but with something that reaches beyond it, too.” –Marilyn Hacker, author of Selected Poems: 1965-1990 and Desesperanto.
For videos of Vivian reading poems, please see www.youtube.com/viviandemuth
For POETRY ON THE PEAKS, please see www.poetryonthepeaks.wordpress.com
Available from SmokyPeace Press
Eyes of the Forest engages the greatest issues of our age without pretension through the eyes of both human and non-human life. Set in Canada’s boreal forest, the fire lookouts, tree planters, loggers, and oil patch rounders inhabit a narrative that raises the stakes to Planet Earth itself. Here are women sketching their identities on the front lines of an ecological and ideological battle–robust, soulful, revolutionary women, harbingers of a new mythology. Some of the men are lost or searching souls, ghosts of that dying culture of Adam’s right to dominion. At the heart of it all, a young woman and young man struggle for a love as beautiful and precarious as the wilderness around them. Passionate, exotic, and slightly apocalyptic, the novel challenges that American myth of “taming the West.”
“Demuth’s debut novel is a breath of fresh air. Her prose is wonderfully descriptive and confident, an ode to nature in its most primal form. City dwellers such as myself are reminded of what we do not know about the wild, and what we are all at risk of losing in our selfish shortsightedness.” –Kaylie Jones, award-winning author of Speak Now and A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries
Forthcoming Readings: Vivian Demuth will be reading from Eyes of the Forest at the Quebec City Writer’s Festival at the Morrin Centre April 18th, 2009.
Past Readings:
SEE- www.youtube.com/viviandemuth
BOOK TOUR 2007
Vivian Demuth will be reading from her novel, Eyes of the Forest, as part of a Western Canada 2007 Spring Book Tour. Most of the readings will take place in public libraries, with a few colleges, bookstores, and galleries as well. The tour begins in Grande Prairie on April 23rd then travels through B.C. and Saskatchewan and ends on May 14th in Dawson Creek.
Here are the dates, times, and places:
* April 23, Grande Prairie, Regional College, Rm C224, 7:30 pm * April 24, Hinton Public Library, 7:00 pm * April 26, Vancouver, Library Main Branch, 7:30 pm * April 28, Duncan, Cowichan Public Library, 2 pm * April 29, Victoria, Oak Bay Library, 2 pm * April 30, Abbotsford, Clearbrook Library, 7:00 pm * May 1, New Westminster, Public Library, 7:00 pm * May 2, Kamloops, Kamloops Library, 7:00 pm * May 3, Calgary, Central Library, 7:00 pm * May 5, Lethbridge, Public Library, 12 noon * May 6, Medicine Hat, Medicine Hat Library, 3 pm * May 7, Regina, Public Library, 7:00 pm * May 8, Saskatoon, McNally Robinson Books, 7 pm * May 10, Edmonton, Whitemud Crossing Library, 7:00 pm * May 11, Strathcona County Library, Sherwood Park, 7:00 pm * May 12, Edmonton , Stanley A. Milner Library, 2 p.m. * May 15, Dawson Creek, Gallery, 7:00 pm *
