Launched in March 2025
Two new books of nonfiction prose were launched on Saturday, March 29, 2025, at 2:30 pm.
Daniel Coleman was born and raised the child of Canadian missionary parents in Ethiopia, an experience he has written about in The Scent of Eucalyptus: A Missionary Childhood in Ethiopia. He moved to the Canadian prairies in the 1980s and completed his PhD in Canadian Literature at the University of Alberta in 1995. Since 1997, he has lived in Hamilton, Ontario, and taught Canadian Literature at McMaster University. He recently retired. His books include Masculine Migrations (1998), The Scent of Eucalyptus (2003), White Civility (2006, winner of the Raymond Klibansky Prize), In Bed with the Word (2009), and Yardwork: A Biography of an Urban Place (2017, shortlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize). He will read from Grandfather of the Treaties: Finding our Future Through the WampumCovenant (Wolsak and Wynn, 2025).
John Terpstra is the well-known poet and prose writer from Hamilton who has published a dozen poetry collections (three of which have been in The St. Thomas Poetry Series) as well as several books of non-fiction and numerous chapbooks. For many years he was an independent furniture maker and has more recently combined his writing life with working out of his own carpentry shop in a renovated garage behind his home. He will read from his new book, A Carpentry of Words and Wood: A Memoir, published by his major publisher, Gaspereau Press.
You can watch the launch on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEXQjGNzJ-o&t=13s