Collections of poetry
Books by Brenda Gunn and her mother Ellamae Ingram Gunn, featured below, are available on Amazon, in print and ebook. Florilegia is also available at Audreys Books, Edmonton, and at Indigo/Chapters, West Edmonton Mall, and Indigo Spirit, Southgate Mall.
Florilegia
The poems in Florilegia are wide-ranging, but track a mason’s line of common themes — love and loss and the complicated relationships with the places we call home. Available from Audreys Books, Edmonton, and on Amazon for $8.99.
the Rosedale Readings
Rosedale Readings is a collection of poems by Brenda’s mother, Ellamae Ingram Gunn. It offers the best of more than fifty years of the pen of the Prairie Poet. Reflections on life, love, and the fragile beauty of the natural world.
The Rosedale Readings Revisited
The Rosedale Readings Revisited is an updated, large-print edition of Ella Gunn’s poetry, featuring new material and family photographs. Available for $8.99 from Amazon.
Reviews
Sheelagh Caygill.
“A beautiful collection focused on diverse themes. These poems touch on family, a sense of place, memories of small prairie towns, and joy and grief.”
Keith Garebian
On the poem Summer School in Florilegia: “Summer School contains a very concrete description that creates the ambiance of a June classroom, where the speaker’s mood moves from sleepy ennui to positive dreaminess. A striking interplay of the external and internal.”
Newgrif
“Lovely Talented Lady! Glad her daughter shared these with us!.”
What people are saying about Stella’s Lament 1905
Ella Peary, Author’s Publish
“I love the voice of this poem — the attention to rhythm and melody within the conversational language. Thank you!”
F. McManus, Writer’s Room for Poets
“What a strong personal poem; the detailed list of tasks and food, the emotional notes tucked convincingly within.”
O. Peters, Writer’s Room for Poets.
“How the toils and chores of the past really have not changed, have they?”
Brenda Gunn, West End Writer 