Gil Adamson has published two startling poetry collections, Primitive and Ashland, as well as an acclaimed collection of linked stories, Help Me, Jacques Cousteau. She cites as her influences Michael Ondaatje, Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Mark Richard, and her writing shows a similar attention to craft and a willingness to explore characters who are both brilliant and alienated.
Her first novel, The Outlander (Anansi), is an Adamson take on the western, following a young woman at the turn of the 20th century as she flees from desperate circumstances toward Frank AB, home of the massive landslide. Adamson lives in Toronto.
Click here for
Gil Adamson's
Reading Copy.
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Caught Gil Adamson after her startlingly good reading from The Outlander at tonight's THIN AIR Mainstage performance.
Managed to convince her to contribute a Reading Copy, the first of two I have in the can (many many thanks to Anita Daher, who contributed the other after what must have been a long long day!).
There's more to say about Mainstage and even about Adamson, who leaves Winnipeg tomorrow morning 'very early,' but I need to get a few good hours of sleep...so, until I can return to this post and be pithy-pith-pith, enjoy the soundslide!
2 comments:
This is a very cool idea... I hope you do more of them!
Ah, Anon, you're too kind!
(There will another soundslide with Gil Adamson posted sometime tonight...)
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