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The Hospitality of Trees

The Hospitality of Trees is now available from the publisher

Contact the publisher at publisher@shorelinepress.ca


Praise for The Hospitality of Trees:

“In Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt’s hands, words become anything but ordinary—from the scent of lindens along a lakeshore, the imprint of wings on snow, to her father’s last winter on earth, the serious business of living. Poems both fearless and humble. Tenderly, forcefully, they influence our lives.”

-Susan Musgrave, author of Hunger


“The spirit of Rilke hovers over these direct, fine poems. Anyone who knows and loves the small lakeside village of North Hatley, Quebec, will recognize its cherished face in these poems of family, nature, and close observation. The passing of the poet’s father, his last hours a ‘slow barefoot march/over a snowy field,’ is especially poignant. The mystery of the world remains intact in The Hospitality of Trees.”

-Derek Webster, author of National Animal

A review of The Hospitality of Trees in The Montreal Review of Books

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Reviews

“The writing is almost lyrical. It is a beautiful thing”
—Toby A. Welch /SaskBooks


“Her writing is on point, allowing us to travel with her. And it’s engrossing: we keep turning the pages, wanting to know more.”
—Yara El-Soueidi, Montreal Review of Books


“It’s quite a feat to couple the chaos of the Middle East with the chaos of adolescence.”
—Bronwyn Drainie, Literary Review of Canada


“In Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt’s hands, words become anything but ordinary—from the scent of lindens along a lakeshore, the imprint of wings on snow, to her father’s last winter on earth, the serious business of living. Poems both fearless and humble. Tenderly, forcefully, they influence our lives.”
—Susan Musgrave, author of Hunger


“Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt returns in memory to her early adolescence with her peacekeeper father in
war-torn 1980s Beirut, and with honesty and courage traces the legacy of terror in her life and the lives of loved ones and strangers. Each of these thirty-two essays illuminates the psychic consequences of trauma from a different angle, adding up to a multi-faceted portrait of a woman whose personal history won’t let her ignore the costs of societal violence. Thoughtful, compassionate, and
relevant, Carrying War is an eloquent plea for  peace, and a testament to human resilience and the
healing power of art.”
—Susan Olding, author of Big Reader

Photography credit: Emma Allatt

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