Trillium Book Awards Author Reading 2015

www.light-sweet-crude.org / LYRICS by Victoria poet laureate Linda Rogers

Submitted by lrogers on July 26, 2009 - 9:04pm
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Sometimes a poem wants to be a song. Check out our website and the songs of redemption on Ruin and Beauty, the new album with Light Sweet Crude featuring my husband, blues mandolinist Rick van Krugel, singer Chris Trygg, Doug and the Slugs (David Letterman's favourite band) lead guitarist and Rev Gary Davis student Richard Baker, Del Cowsill on bass, Andy Graffitti on drums, Steve Drake on guitar, and heartstrings steel guitar by Jake Galbraith.

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My granddaughter has three teeth, so I ordered three copies of BORN WITH A TOOTH for Christmas gifts

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Submitted by lrogers on November 28, 2008 - 2:00am

My granddaughter has three teeth, so I ordered three copies of BORN WITH A TOOTH for Christmas gifts

Canada has discovered Jospeh Boyden, or to be honest, I have. I am a little cynical about the awards process. It doesn't make a writer any better than he or she was the day before, but a lot of other people seem to think it does. We are flockers.

I am one of those geriatric hippies who tried not to read Sidhartha etc. etc. I got so sick and tired of people being mellow (narced out) and open (to STD's) while I was just trying to talk my way through grad school.

Same goes for flavour of the month anything. Ho hum.

Linda Rogers

Linda Rogers is the author of the novels Say My Name (Ekstasis Editions, 2000), Friday Water (Cormorant Books, 2003) and The Empress Letters (Cormorant Books, 2007). She has also published several collections of poetry, including Love in the Rainforest (Exile Editions, 1996), Heaven Cake (Sono Nis Press, 1997), The Saning (Sono Nis Press, 1999) and The Bursting Test (Guernica Editions, 2002).

Go to Linda Rogers’s Author Page