Lichen Bright: Poems by Lauren Carter
Long-listed for the 2006 ReLit Award!
Your Scrivener Press is pleased to publish the first collection by Lauren Carter. Originally from Blind River, and with strong roots in the northeast, Lauren Carter currently works as a freelance journalist and travel writer out of Orillia, Ontario. She also writes fiction. Her story "Culture Shock" appears in the YSP collection Bluffs: Northeastern Ontario Stories From the Edge.
The poems in Lichen Bright follow the protagonist into a spare, stripped down, emotionally bereft relationship, and document both the witch-haunted darkness that human relationships can spawn, and the persistently creative bedrock grasp with which the mind resists the lure of the witches. The poems are thoughtful, subtle, and emotionally charged, but not sentimental. Nor do they bog down in their emotion—there is a powerful forward movement to the collection; the narrator has somewhere to get to. But neither is Carter a poet who is swept away on the current of her emotion; there is a craftedness to the collection which displays thoughtful reflection, consideration, and re-consideration. Such movement reflects Lauren's interest in travel writing.
We launched Lichen Bright in October 2005. Look for it in your local bookstore, or order it direct from the YSP website.
Book Details
October, 2005
ISBN 1-896350-17-8
60 pp., softcover
$12.00 plus $2.00 s&h, from the publisher
(featured painting: "Embracing the Slope," by permission of the artist--Laura J. Carter, OSA SCA CSPWC)
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About the Author
Lauren Carter grew up in Blind River, watching the waves on the North Shore of Lake Huron. She now lives in Orillia, Ontario, with her husband Jason, where she teaches at Georgian College, writes a weekly column for her local paper the Orillia Packet and Times, and freelances. She has published in the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, NOW Magazine, THIS Magazine, among others. She wrote the Outdoors section for Moon Metro Toronto (Avalon Publishing, 2003) and was short-listed for This Magazine’s Great Canadian Literary Hunt in 2001 and their Best New Writer—Creative Non-Fiction Contest in 2002. Her poetry has appeared in a variety of Canadian journals and magazines, both print and online. Lauren developed the poems in Lichen Bright with the support of an Ontario Arts Council grant.