Beaver hills forever : a métis poetic novella / Conor Kerr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kerr, Conor, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry--Métis authors--21st century.

Canadian poetry.

Genre:

Education -- Social aspects -- Canada -- Fiction.

Social problem fiction.

Novels in verse.

Physical Description:

84 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Conor Kerr's 2024 novel Prairie Edge was a finalist for both the Giller Prize and the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust of Canada Fiction Prize. His latest book, Beaver Hills Forever, takes a riotous, uncompromising look at the intertwined lives of four characters, each an abstract expression of the few paths available to Métis people on the Prairies. In alternating poetic verses, Buddy, Baby Momma, Fancy University Boy, and Aunty Prof share their inner dreams, hardships, delusions of grandeur, and existential plights. While the messy day-to-day is created by their own doing, the lives of these four individuals are doubly compromised by Canada's colonial education system and resource extraction industries. A beguiling and genre-bending work, Beaver Hills Forever offers a moving, necessary exploration of education, labour, and the dynamic, ever-changing bonds that bring us back to each other. Here is a diverse, funny, pitch-perfect chorus of voices that rings loud and true over the wide prairie landscape."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Part One: Moose Meat -- Part Two: Prairie Chickens -- Part Three: Saskatoons -- Part Four: Chokecherries.

Other Format:

Online version: Kerr, Conor. Beaver hills forever.

ISBN:

9781834050089

1834050081

OCLC:

1499529975