Maureen McCarthy

| Maureen McCarthy is a writer, mother and nurse who lives in New Westminster. She is the author of She Reminds Me of Vermeer, Girls in the Last Seat Waving and Lonely in a Cool, Sweet Way. |
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Girls in the Last Seat Waving 978-1-55017-000-9 · 1-55017-000-7 · 1989 · $16.95 "Her language is uncommonly controlled but stamped with a recognizable rhythmic sense. . . McCarthy is an observer, and the poems are the result of reflection based on an open eye and heart." -Bruce Whiteman, Event |
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Lonely in a Cool, Sweet Way 978-1-55017-115-0 · 1-55017-115-1 · 1994 · $12.95 Maureen McCarthy was praised by Al Purdy for ". . . this intimacy that gives her poems power." |
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Sneaking Through the Evening 978-1-55017-216-4 · 1-55017-216-6 · 1999 · $11.95 This new collection of poems comes from a writer Al Purdy has compared to Emily Dickinson and Margaret Avison. |



