Böcker av Christine Lowther

A new generation of old-growth defenders and activist-poets, from kindergarten to grade twelve, express their love and respect for trees. In Worth More Growing, youth, from kindergarten through grade twelve, share their love and respect for trees. Speaking to our changing climate, this new generation of old-growth defenders express their observations, anger, kinship, hope, and sorrow. This unique anthology includes a wide range of voices--Indigenous, settler, immigrant, and even international youth. Worth More Growing is a necessary anthology highlighting the importance of nature to a generation that will experience the ongoing consequences of climate change.

Poets, both settler and Indigenous, pay tribute to trees through reflections on the past, connections to the present, and calls for the protection of our future. In Worth More Standing: Poets and Activists Pay Homage to Trees, celebrated poets and activists pay homage to the ghosts of lost forests and issue a rallying cry to protect remaining ancient giants and restore uncolonized spaces. Themes of connection, ecology, grief, and protection are explored through poems about trees and forests written by an impressive number of influential poets, several of whom have attended the recent Fairy Creek blockades and still others who defended old growth ecosystems in Clayoquot Sound nearly 30 years ago. Contributors include ninth Parliamentary Poet Laureate Louise Bernice Halfe-Sky Dancer, GG winner Arleen Paré, Canadian icon bill bissett, Griffin Poetry Prize winner Eve Joseph, ReLit Award winner Patrick Friesen, Order of Canada and Order of the Rising Sun recipient Joy Kogawa, Vancouver Poet Laureate Fiona Tinwei Lam, Harold Rhenisch, Jay Ruzesky, John Barton, Kate Braid, Kim Trainor, Kim Goldberg, Pamela Porter, Patricia and Terence Young, Russell Thornton, Sonnet L'Abbé, Susan McCaslin, Susan Musgrave, Tom Wayman, Trevor Carolan, Yvonne Blomer, Zoe Dickinson, and the late Pat Lowther.

J.K. Rowling's HARRY POTTER books are classics of modern fantasy literature which have moved millions of readers with themes that reach to the depths of human existence - the fact of death, the threat of evil, and the power of love and friendship. It is no wonder that such epic themes attracted a poet like Christine Lowther. Harry Potter's losses and struggles have an uncanny resemblance to episodes from her own life which she calls the twelve "Searing Similarities" (detailed in the book's preface). But like Harry, Christine's poetry can also soar above the tragic to discover the heroic and beautiful in such poems as "Neville, Unlikely Rebel," "For Our Wide-Armed Mothers," and "A Boy's Hands." There are seventy-one HALF-BLOOD POEMS divided into seven chapters corresponding to the seven book series: STONES OF SORCERY, SECRETIVE CHAMBERS/HEART AND MIND, FREED FROM AZKABAN, GOBLET OF HEALING FIRE, TEARS OF A PHOENIX, HALF-BLOOD MUDBLOOD, EMBRACING THE DEATHLY HALLOWS. Fans of HARRY POTTER will experience again many of the emotions they felt reading the books - emotions presented most effectively through a poet's words. . . Christine Lowther resides on the beautiful shores of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. This is her third published collection of poetry.

A collection of essays which follow Christine Lowther's journey from the unutterable loss of her mother to the discovery of her own poetic voice through reflection and her intimate connection to the coastal rainforest. Lowther looks back on her mother's poetry and activism. She recalls the day the police arrested her father, and the indifferent beauty surrounding that life-changing moment.