**Shortlisted for the 2022 Trillium Book Award** **Shortlisted for the 2021 Toronto Book Award** In Æther Catherine Graham has created a luminous homage to family, to cancer and to the strange windings of truth. Swimming through time and space, Graham introduces her mother, her father and herself and the cancers that pull them apart and bring them together. Memories mesh with visitations and multiple stories unfold of pain and loss, hidden tragedy, forgiveness and growth. With an otherworldly delicacy Graham stitches it all together to create a book-length lyric essay of lingering and profound beauty, a paean to the complexity of love and survival. Reviews: "Loss teaches us lessons, and the poet has conveyed this notion so poignantly in this beautiful hybrid, lyric essay." About the Author: Catherine Graham is an award-winning, internationally published, Toronto-based novelist and poet. Her sixth poetry collection, The Celery Forest, was named a CBC Best Book of the Year and was a finalist for the Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry. Her Red Hair Rises with the Wings of Insects was a finalist for the Raymond Souster Poetry Award and the CAA Poetry Award; and her debut novel, Quarry, won an Independent Publisher Book Awards gold medal for fiction, "The Very Best!" Book Awards for Best Fiction and was a finalist for the Sarton Women's Book Award for Contemporary Fiction and Fred Kerner Book Award. She teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto where she won an Excellence in Teaching Award. A previous winner of TIFA's Poetry NOW, she currently leads their monthly Book Club. |