Walking Through Turquoise Laurie MacFayden’s third book of poetry continues to explore the secrets and flirtations mined in her previous titles, White Shirt and Kissing Keeps Us Afloat. The clumsy intricacies of relationships; things you want to shout from rooftops but can’t; that tickle in your gut the first time she calls you honey. MacFayden ponders a one-way […]
Kissing Keeps Us Afloat
Another Golden opportunity
My second book, Kissing Keeps Us Afloat, was honoured with a Golden Crown Literary Society Award in the poetry category in July. I was not able to attend the awards ceremony in July in New Orleans, so this afternoon Frontenac House publishers Rose and David Scollard have invited me to crash their Quartet 2015 preview party (2 p.m., Harcourt […]
‘Tis the season for Alberta books
Kissing Keeps Us Afloat – still available at Audreys Books, downtown Edmonton.
Alberta Views reviews Quartet 2014
From Bookshelf, November 2014 issue: […] Laurie MacFayden’s Kissing Keeps Us Afloat relates the experiences of knowing, “by tenth grade,” that one would “never, not ever, be one of the cool kids,” and of recognizing “burgeoning yearnings,” yearnings “we never talked about / the kind two girls aren’t supposed to feel / for each other.” […]
kissing keeps us afloat – and on the charts
Blueprints (excerpt)
i go back to my dark sad room and make a list of joyful things starting with marc chagall, his stained-glass genius rescued me in chicago and france also, i bought a banjo at a yard sale, music can save lives from Kissing Keeps Us Afloat Laurie MacFayden Release date: September 2014, Frontenac House