2012 update: My publishing company, Graceful Publications has started donating half the proceeds from sale of this book and of Leap to Hearts for Change,
a small Canadian charity that's passionate about helping disadvantaged
children around the world. Poetry doesn't make people millionaires, so I
decided to do something worthwhile with the small amount of royalties
these books received. I can't believe the small difference we've been
able to make in just a few years.
Since the paperback release of WTBG in 2008, through UNICEF and now
Hearts for Change, we've been able to send five children to school and
provide for their health and welfare, and we've helped countless others
by donating pencils and books to entire schools. Thanks again for your
help!
This is the second poety collection of Stewart's that I have read. I enjoyed this one as much as the first and I will be grabbing her third, Carry on Dancing, soon.
I want to mention the images in the book first. They're awesome and she places them perfectly among the poems. The picture of the World Trade Center next to the poem, When Freedom Stands, caused a stir of patriotism and sadness inside me.
One thing that I enjoy about Heather's work is that is modern. She pokes fun at social networking and the addiction it causes. Five Thousand Friends is one example. Lolita touches on an aspect of the social world that I doubt few poets have touched before, if any.
Light Moments was my favorite poem of the collection. It made me think about how we celebrate the big moments, but it's the Light Moments that make a life.
Well done, Heather. Thanks again for sharing your writing.
Heather's maturity shows, in both her writing skills and her womanhood. From her first collection, Heather grows. She's focused on both the joys and tears of wife and mother and in poet's manner, why "it's all worth it." When doubt might plague, Heather can say "yes, it's worth all of the time, tears, trouble and heartache," as she shares herself with her readers.
Leap was a charming, heart-warming addition to the culture of our household. It resides on the coffee table where, every so often, my daughter would pick it up and open to a random selection and smile. A really sweet and funny work from the talented Heather Grace Stewart.
Heather Grace Stewart is a Canadian magazine writer, author and poet. Her first poem was published in her school newsletter when she was five, and she's been hooked on writing ever since.
With the release of Three Spaces, her 2013 collection of poetry, stories, and photography, reviewers are calling her work 'modern' and 'unconventional;' the writing 'tender' 'heartfelt' and 'vulnerable.'
Her third poetry collection, Carry On Dancing (Winter Goose Publishing, March 2012) has been reviewed as 'brave, personal and eloquent poems.' She is also the author of the poetry collections 'Leap' and 'Where the Butterflies Go,' two non-fiction books for youth, and a book of children's poetry, The Groovy Granny.
Born in Ottawa, she lives with her husband and daughter near Montreal. In her free time, she loves to take photos, scrapbook, cartoon, inline skate, dance like nobody's watching, and eat Swedish Berries -- usually not at the same time.
Visit her blog at http://heathergracestewart.com and her official website, http://heathergracestewart.me
