Name: Beauty in the Broken
Start: 2024-11-06T19:30:00+00:00
End: 2024-11-06T21:30:00+00:00
Location: Florence Park Community Centre

Join Florence Park local author Jackie Singer and US based storyteller & author Tracy Chipman in an evening of poetry and prose from their new books. Jackie’s pamphlet, Loom - Poems of Love and Loss, was written for her sister, the novelist and playwright Nicky Singer, who died of a stroke last year. The poems are personal, but speak to a universal experience of grief.
“A delight. They slipped into my mind and heart very easily, and some of them stayed there, after just one read.” Teresa Heapy
“Heart-breakingly beautiful” Rachel Grunwald
Tracy Chipman’s Borealis Mundi - Resting in Place, Loss and Grace also tells a personal tale through memoir, essay and poetry, weaving together stories of chopping wood and carrying water near the shining waters of Lake Superior, walking the wind-salted islands of Scotland, and resting in the weight of loss after loss in the boreal forests of northern Wisconsin.
“What a gift, this book. Borealis Mundi is a poetic and profound entryway into connection with more of ourselves.” Chelan Harkin
Borealis Mundi is a visceral, spiritual odyssey across literal and psychic waters. Those acquainted with grief and loss will hear echoes of their own lives in her stories. And they may find wisdom there as well. I know I did.” Kevin McMullin
Entrance is free. Signed books will be available to buy.