Carmelita McGrath's Books

Their Lives and Times brings together in one place a lively mix of perspectives, including previously published work and new research, literary and scholarly work. It will be equally at home in an academic setting or on the bookshelf of any reader interested in the diversity of women's experiences and the ways in which these experiences have been explored in new research and literature.

In this new collection of poetry, Carmelita McGrath writes from a place where past, present and future meet near the end of a century. Women cross oceans to embrace dreams and give birth in harsh conditions. A doctor borrows a "dead grandmother's hands" to ease a difficult birth. A child wanders through a winter park, and receives intimations of death within death. A man brings a woman a fish to make her fall in love with him. Angels are imagined as gift-givers to sooth an old disappointment. And desire persists, a life-force, from childhood through age, from generation to generation.

Carmelita McGrath's second collection of fiction explores the psychic and emotional realm of everyday life. Travelling from a 1930s Newfoundland outport to present day St. John's, these fourteen stories, bringing to life the world of ordinary girls and women who come to know that "redemption is something we reach for, but don't get. A little grace, now, that's a different matter...

Lissa's greatest wish is to have a puppy of her very own. When Jingles comes along, it isn't quite the puppy Lissa wanted, but eventually the dog grows on her" Cf. Our choice, 2002.

Weather's Edge sets out to capture the richness and diversity of women's lives in Newfoundland and Labrador. It

Book's by Carmelita McGrath

Their Lives and Times

Their Lives and Times

To the New World

To the New World

Stranger Things Have Happened

Stranger Things Have Happened

The Dog-next-year

The Dog-next-year

Their Lives and Times

Their Lives and Times

Weather's Edge

Weather's Edge

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