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Ariel Gordon

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March 30, 1973 in Winnipeg, Canada

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About this author

Ariel Gordon is a Winnipeg-based writer and editor. In spring 2010, Palimpsest Press published her first full-length poetry collection, Hump. She is the 2010 recipient of the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Writer and the 2011 Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry / Le Prix Lansdowne du poesie. How to Prepare for Flooding (JackPine Press, 2011), a collaboration with designer Julia Michaud, was launched in fall 2011. When not being bookish, Ariel likes tromping through the woods and taking macro photographs of mushrooms.


Average rating: 4.40 · 5 ratings · 1 review · 3 distinct works
Hump
4.75 of 5 stars 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010
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How to Prepare for Flooding
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Author appearance, June 12, 2012 07:00PM
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Fall back: fallen + Fall back: the last good day (Poetry)
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Description: Two poems from Hump (Palimpsest Press, 2010).
Between Mountains
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Ariel Gordon wrote a new blog post: Horizon


All photos LaBarriere Park, Winnipeg. May 26, 2012.* * *It had been years since we'd been in LaBarriere Park. So when we arrived and I saw the long... read more »
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Empire of the Beetle by Andrew Nikiforuk
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Stray Love by Kyo Maclear
Stray Love
by Kyo Maclear (Goodreads Author)
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TORONTO writer Kyo Maclear's lovely second novel is set in present-day London and Vietnam War-era Saigon and tells the story an adopted son of a British foreign correspondent.

Marcel Laurence, despite his European name, grows up non-white in 1950s Eng...more
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For King and Kanata by Timothy C. Winegard
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"How to Connect With Your Father

“After supper Dot pitched a ball to me several dozen times – first I ever tried to catch. It was as hard as Nero’s hear...more
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Between Mountains by Maggie Helwig
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Rats Of Las Vegas by Lisa Pasold
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The Juliet Stories by Carrie Snyder
The Juliet Stories
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The Deleted World by Tomas Tranströmer
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Suicide Psalms by Mari-Lou Rowley
Suicide Psalms
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“Most everything influences my work. Working in a used bookstore. Going for walks in the woods and peering at mushrooms. Writing reviews. Coming from frumpy, grumpy, faded-at-the-knees Winnipeg.”
Ariel Gordon

“Two things consistently bring me pleasure: hot sweet tea and writing. Which is not to say that either are particularly good for me…I use entirely too much sugar and so far don’t find sucralose to be a good alternative. Also, writing is not a practice that engenders confidence. Quite the opposite. It’s about making yourself deliberately insecure so that you can write the next thing and have it be worth reading.

And that’s not even taking into consideration the business end of things, which can make you bitter if you’re not careful…

But I’ve spent my the bulk of my life to date figuring out the right mix of fat and sugar in my tea and also, how to get incrementally better (I hope…) at the writing, so I’m not giving it/them up!”
Ariel Gordon

“Two things consistently bring me pleasure: hot sweet tea and writing. Which is not to say that either are particularly good for me…I use entirely too much sugar and so far don’t find sucralose to be a good alternative. Also, writing is not a practice that engenders confidence. Quite the opposite. It’s about making yourself deliberately insecure so that you can write the next thing and have it be worth reading.

And that’s not even taking into consideration the business end of things, which can make you bitter if you’re not careful…

But I’ve spent my the bulk of my life to date figuring out the right mix of fat and sugar in my tea and also, how to get incrementally better (I hope…) at the writing, so I’m not giving it/them up!”
Ariel Gordon

“Most everything influences my work. Working in a used bookstore. Going for walks in the woods and peering at mushrooms. Writing reviews. Coming from frumpy, grumpy, faded-at-the-knees Winnipeg.”
Ariel Gordon

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