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Parallel
Lines reaches across vast distances in time and place, from 19th century
industrial England to 21st century coastal BC, unfolding a memoir in poetry
that explores the loss, discovery and longing that is the immigrant experience.
Galloway summons her ancestors from their work and play. We meet them
trudging along canal banks, assisting at a birth, joining a sing-song
at the pub. Their memory persists, reaching forward to a schoolgirls
skipping game shared across three centuries, their presence resounding
through the landscape of the new world: forest, ocean and the vast,
lilac-washed and vibrant sky. Galloways poems carry the steady
pulse of loss, but also have the power to uplift with celebration and
hope.
Born in northern England,
Pam Galloway now lives in Vancouver, BC. Her poetry is published widely
in Canadian and UK literary magazines and anthologies. Her collaboration
with four other poets was published as Quintet: Themes and Variations,
Ekstasis Editions, 1998. She also works as a speech and language therapist. |
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