John Terpstra

John Terpstra reads "I moved to Burlington in my Sleep"

From: The Church Not Made with Hands, published by Wolsak & Wynn

Time of Reading: 5:15

Terpstra's 2004 collection of poetry, Disarmament, was nominated for a Governor General's award for poetry, and his recent non-fiction work, The Boys, or, Waiting for the Electrician's Daughter, published by Gaspereau Press, was short-listed for the Charles Taylor Prize. This recording was taken from a CD project John did with pianist Bart Nameth.

"John Terpstra's meditations have the soundness and snug fit of consummate carpentry... with the toughness of maple, the compassion of cedar."
— Don McKay

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