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    Rousing the Machinery: Poems
    Rousing the Machinery: Poems
    Rousing the Machinery: Poems
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    Rousing the Machinery: Poems

    By Catherine MacDonald

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    2012 Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize Winner
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Arkansas Press
    Release dateApr 1, 2012
    ISBN9781610754958
    Rousing the Machinery: Poems
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    Catherine MacDonald

    CATHERINE MACDONALD enjoyed a varied career as an archivist and freelance historian before turning to crime. Her first mystery novel, Put on the Armour of Light, won the Michael Van Rooy Award for Genre Fiction at the 2016 Manitoba Book Awards. So Many Windings, forthcoming from At Bay Press, is the sequel to that book and finds the characters in Scotland where they tour the Highlands by bicycle.Catherine lives and writes in Winnipeg and blogs at Portage and Slain.

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