{"id":6617,"date":"2020-10-19T15:58:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T15:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?p=6617"},"modified":"2020-10-19T15:58:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T15:58:29","slug":"skookum-raven-book-trailer-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?p=6617","title":{"rendered":"“Skookum Raven” Book Trailer Trick"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>
Book Design: Derek von Essen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In case you missed it, we’ve cranked out a book trailer for Skookum Raven.\u00a0<\/a>Please take a look. Please share.<\/p>\n

There are some rough and wild birds around Howe Sound — West Coast avians like the sharp-shinned hawk, the northern harrier, and the whiskey-jack. Heather Haley, an accomplished\u00a0mapper of human migration, pair-bonding and predation, takes these feathered frenemies as her starting point in this assured third collection,\u00a0Skookum Raven<\/em>.\u00a0Like her foremothers and contemporaries Gwendolyn MacEwen, Susan Musgrave and Karen Solie, Haley writes sophisticated free lyrics of a witchy feminist kind — but adds some proletarian ferocity with her bus-station grandpas and sketches of iffy guys like Ed the Fence. These are astute, austere poems which sometimes take flight into optimistic beauty — this book is \u201cpockmarked with luck.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTart, taut and terse, Haley’s honed poems of lust and loss, wrath and remorse are imbued with hard-won insight and subversive wit.\u00a0 Her wry x-ray eye cuts to the quick in an array of deftly drawn portraits that will make you grin with recognition.\u00a0 Haley is a master of assonance, consonance and dissonance, intermingled with flashes of a distilled lyricism\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0– Fiona Tinwei Lam<\/p>\n

\u201cSkookum Raven<\/em> is a text for the tricksters within. With spondaic pow-bams of language, these\u00a0lyrics harness neologistic energies to evoke punchy lust, back alley bravado, and coastal\u00a0croonings on sex, the wild, music and time.\u201d -Catherine Owen<\/p>\n

\u201cHeather Haley\u2019s\u00a0Skookum Raven<\/em>\u00a0honours the west coast with brilliant side-eye observations couched in words drawn from a wide palette, from Chinook trade language to Pussy Riot. She brings us on a stroll through the village, showing the underbelly of every house and garden, then deeper into domestic disharmonies and unease in relatedness, writing sharply from a woman\u2019s point of view. If any reader has become lulled with the beauties of west coast living, she will shake you into more fulsome awareness of the \u201chard blessings\u201d shared. \u201cNo lotus-eaters we\u2026\u201d-Joanne Arnott<\/p>\n

\u201cHaley has the gift of writing to suit her subject in all its raddled variety,\u00a0from wired and jarring to lyrical and tragic.\u201d-Vancouver Sun<\/p>\n

Available for purchase online via PayPal at www.ekstasiseditions.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Contact Ekstasis for details or to arrange appearances, events or media opportunities. For further information: Richard Olafson or Carol Sokoloff\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Phone: (250) 385-3378\u00a0 \u00a0 email: ekstasis@islandnet.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case you missed it, we’ve cranked out a book trailer for Skookum Raven.\u00a0Please take a look. Please share. There are some rough and wild birds around Howe Sound — West Coast avians like the sharp-shinned hawk, the northern harrier, and the whiskey-jack. Heather Haley, an accomplished\u00a0mapper of human migration, pair-bonding and predation, takes these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6617"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6621,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617\/revisions\/6621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}