The Writing Menopause literary anthology is a diverse and robust collection about menopause: a highly charged and often undervalued transformation. It includes over fifty works of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, interviews and cross-genre pieces from contributors across Canada and the United States that break new ground in portraying menopause in literature. The collection includes literary work from award-winning writers such as Roberta Rees, Margaret Macpherson, Lisa Couturier and Rona Altrows. Emerging voices such as Rea Tarvydas, Leanna McLennan, Steve Passey and Gemma Meharchand, and an original interview with trans educator and pioneering filmmaker Buck Angel, are also featured. This anthology fills a sizable gap, finding the ground between punchline and pathology, between saccharine inspiration and existential gloom. The authors neither celebrate nor demonize menopause. These are diverse depictions, sometimes lighthearted, but just as often dark and scary. Some voices embrace the prospect of change, others dread it.Together, this unique offering reflects the varied experience of menopause and shatters common stereotypes.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2019.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C810.8/03561
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 1771333537 9781771333566
- LCCN
- PN6071.M388
- LCCN Item number
- W75 2017eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- YDX
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xiv, 207 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00239913 (OCoLC)970406046 (CaOOCEL)457400
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- YDX
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Copyright 3
- Title Page 4
- Table of Contents 6
- Acknowledgements 14
- Introduction 16
- ONE: UN/DONE 18
- The Chrissie Hynde Stories 20
- Let’s Talk About Sex 26
- Eating Beets During Menopause 28
- I Found Her at the Beach 30
- In Charge 32
- Caged 33
- Dervish 35
- Disassembly 36
- Adjusting the Ashes 47
- Long ago and far away 55
- Il y a longtemps 56
- woman burning 58
- Unzipped 59
- Go. Rock. 61
- Man with a Vagina 66
- Flash Flood 71
- A woman at mid-life 73
- The Hot Women 74
- TWO: IN/FERTILE 76
- Life After Life 78
- I Am My Mare 83
- The Things We Carry 86
- On Women and Forest Fires 88
- Up at Two in the Morning 90
- The Brothers Germain 92
- Unconventional Wisdom 99
- Her Love Life 101
- Roll Over a Change Is Coming 102
- Autumn Fields 104
- A sprinter with pluck and panache 111
- sixty 112
- Perimenopause 113
- the year it did not flood 114
- These Things Did Not Happen 116
- October 122
- On Mountains and Menopause 128
- THREE: UN/KNOWN 134
- Evie’s Massage Parlour 136
- Hidden Talents 146
- Drenched 152
- Pressed On 156
- Midnight Flit 157
- Ugly Duckling Syndrome 159
- Icing on the Cake 162
- Eddies 167
- My Mother’s Skin 168
- Blue Thread 171
- Thaw 175
- Threshold 183
- Perimenopausal I Buy a Navy Blue Blazer 192
- Bond 197
- Reality Check 199
- Salt 200
- Child of Earth 202
- Fact and Fiction 207
- Last Blood 210
- Contributor Notes 211
- Credits 222
