A Selected History of Soul Speak by Andrea Thompson

A Selected History of Soul Speak by Andrea Thompson

A Selected History of Soul Speak by Andrea Thompson

Andrea Thompson has been publishing and performing her work for over twenty-five years. In 2005 her spoken word album, One, was nominated for a Canadian Urban Music Award, in 2009 she was the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word’s Poet of Honour, and in 2019 her poetry album, Soulorations helped earn her the League of Canadian Poets’ Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award.

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A Selected History of Soul Speak

by Andrea Thompson

Reviewed by Shubhaangi Kundalkar.

Weight

.226 kg

Dimensions

9 × 6 × 0.356 in

Page Count

112

Binding

Soft Cover with flaps

Year Published

2021

I loved to read the lines, "there's no place like home". This book is an awesome blend of childhood memories, her going through the menopausal phase. Her abstract idea that each Poetry is an outcome of her own dream is fantabulous! Her lines, "Poetry is daring to dive-in to the deep seventh chakra blues of the experience of being human and letting it stream through you until you are clean and washed free again" is damn spiritual. Her poetry give a  peek of her experience on life and her writing stint. A must read...

 

Andrea Thompson

Andrea Thompson has been publishing and performing her work for over twenty-five years. In 2005 her spoken word album, One, was nominated for a Canadian Urban Music Award, in 2009 she was the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word’s Poet of Honour, and in 2019 her poetry album, Soulorations helped earn her the League of Canadian Poets’ Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award. Thompson is co-author of the anthology, Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out, and author of the novel, Over Our Heads. Thompson currently teaches through Workman Arts, CAMH (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health), and the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies. She is a member of the Brick Books editorial collective and is the project manager for Brick’s multimedia hub, Brickyard. Thompson’s work is featured in the anthology, Best Canadian Poetry: 2020, and she is the recipient of the 2021 Leon E. & Ann M. Pavlick Poetry Prize.

Her website is www.andreathompson.ca