Since 2020, the WGA has been asking WGA members to tell us about their books, and we have compiled those submissions into viewable posts on our website.
Below is a list of books published by WGA members in 2024, (organized alphabetically by author’s last name).
We encourage you to have a look at the incredible work WGA members have produced!
WGA members’ books published in previous years are also listed online at the following links:
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WGA Member Books 2024
Bird, Making No Sound
Carol L. MacKay
poetry
The poems in Bird, Making No Sound were written over several decades in both BC and Alberta, and in the case of one poem, on a plane over the Atlantic. They are the accumulation of moments, real and imagined, of things said and words almost uttered, and of the many ways time may be marked or reconstructed to move us forward. But, mostly, this collection is about poetry and its gift of voice when other modes of expression are inaccessible.
Praise for poems in Bird, Making No Sound:
“Writing the Prairie on Hornby Island”: “A magical fusion of seascape and prairie memories in brilliant, accessible word choices allows readers to understand the creativity of writers.” – Bernice Lever, Author of Small Acts (Black Moss Press) and Red Letter Day (Black Moss Press)
“This sensual portrait treats the reader to the imagery of a coastal sea under a prairie harvest light.” – Shelley Harrison Rae, author of Life Leaves Stains: selected poems and images (Wordlink Press)
“Maidenhair Fern (Winner of the Wine Country Writer’s Festival 2023 Poetry Prize) “Not only did this poem hit me with the full force of memory, it elevated it.” -Genevieve Wynand
Bird, Making No Sound: Collected Poems, Carol L. MacKay, ISBN 978-0-9739844-1-5, 69p., printed and bound by Creativity Commons, Vancouver Island Regional Library, 2024.