What keeps us together? What breaks us apart? In Love Me True, 27 creative nonfiction writers and 20 poets explore how marriage and committed relationships have challenged, shaped, supported and changed them. The stories and poems in this collection delve deep into the mysteries of long-term bonds. The authors cover a gamut of issues and ideaseverything from everyday conflicts to deep philosophical divides, as well as jealousy, adultery, physical or mental illness, and loss. Theres happiness here too, along with love and companionship, whether the long-term partnering is monogamous, polyamorous, same-sex or otherwise. From surprise proposals, stolen quickies, and snoring to arranged marriage, affairs, suicide, and much more, the wide-ranging personal stories and poems in Love Me True are sometimes funny, sometimes harrowing, and always engaging as they offer their intimate and varied insights into the complex state that is marriage. Editors Jane Silcott and Fiona Tinwei Lam have assembled work from notable authors across Canada, both well-known and up-and-coming, including Luanne Armstrong, Joanne Arnott, Donna Besel, Ronna Bloom, Lesley Buxton, Mandy Len Catron, Kevin Chong, Lorna Crozier, Michael Crummey, Eufemia Fantetti, Jane Eaton Hamilton, Maureen Scott Harris, Maureen Hynes, Michelle Kaeser, Jagtar Kaur Atwal, Chelene Knight, Evelyn Lau, Ellen McGinn, Lauren McKeon, Monica Meneghetti, Jane Munro, Susan Musgrave, Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Juliane Okot Bitek, Susan Olding, Elise Partridge, Miranda Pearson, Toni Pieroni, Tana Runyan, Rachel Rose, Andreas Schroeder, Karen Shklanka, Anne Simpson, Kara Stanley, Chris Tarry, Rob Taylor, Yasuko Thanh, Russell Thornton, Ayelet Tsabari, Bronwen Wallace, Betsy Warland, Gina Leola Woolsey, Samra Zafar, and others.
Show moreWhat keeps us together? What breaks us apart? In Love Me True, 27 creative nonfiction writers and 20 poets explore how marriage and committed relationships have challenged, shaped, supported and changed them. The stories and poems in this collection delve deep into the mysteries of long-term bonds. The authors cover a gamut of issues and ideaseverything from everyday conflicts to deep philosophical divides, as well as jealousy, adultery, physical or mental illness, and loss. Theres happiness here too, along with love and companionship, whether the long-term partnering is monogamous, polyamorous, same-sex or otherwise. From surprise proposals, stolen quickies, and snoring to arranged marriage, affairs, suicide, and much more, the wide-ranging personal stories and poems in Love Me True are sometimes funny, sometimes harrowing, and always engaging as they offer their intimate and varied insights into the complex state that is marriage. Editors Jane Silcott and Fiona Tinwei Lam have assembled work from notable authors across Canada, both well-known and up-and-coming, including Luanne Armstrong, Joanne Arnott, Donna Besel, Ronna Bloom, Lesley Buxton, Mandy Len Catron, Kevin Chong, Lorna Crozier, Michael Crummey, Eufemia Fantetti, Jane Eaton Hamilton, Maureen Scott Harris, Maureen Hynes, Michelle Kaeser, Jagtar Kaur Atwal, Chelene Knight, Evelyn Lau, Ellen McGinn, Lauren McKeon, Monica Meneghetti, Jane Munro, Susan Musgrave, Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Juliane Okot Bitek, Susan Olding, Elise Partridge, Miranda Pearson, Toni Pieroni, Tana Runyan, Rachel Rose, Andreas Schroeder, Karen Shklanka, Anne Simpson, Kara Stanley, Chris Tarry, Rob Taylor, Yasuko Thanh, Russell Thornton, Ayelet Tsabari, Bronwen Wallace, Betsy Warland, Gina Leola Woolsey, Samra Zafar, and others.
Show moreFiona Tinwei Lam has authored two poetry books and a childrens book. She edited The Bright Well: Contemporary Canadian Poems on Facing Cancer and co-edited Love Me True: Writers Reflect on the Ins, Outs, Ups & Downs of Marriage with Jane Silcott. She has won The New Quarterlys Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest and was a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award. Her work appears in over thirty anthologies, including The Best of the Best Canadian Poetry in English: The Tenth Anniversary Edition and Forcefield: 77 Women Poets of BC. Her poetry videos have screened at festivals locally and internationally. She teaches at Simon Fraser Universitys Continuing Studies. Odes & Laments is her third collection of poetry. fionalam.net
Such a wonderful collection. Funny, sad, poignant, diverse: this is
an eloquent and entertaining exploration of the ways we wed, break
up, find ourselves and one another. Deborah Campbell, author of A
Disappearance in Damascus
Love Me True features stories and poems written by men and women
who push and tug at love, struggle to stretch it around their own
unruly hearts. Some are pioneers, venturing on gay marriage or
polyamory. Some escape from arranged marriages or infidelitous
ones. Some are brave, loving on despite tragedy, loss and the
vicissitudes of ageing. I was impressed by the unflinching honesty
of these writerstheir utterly candid account of intimacy and their
feelings about it. Claudia Cornwall
Fifty percent of marriages end in divorce, which makes the
institution half as safe a bet as this terrific collection of
brightness and darkness to have, hold, and read, in sickness and in
health.Charlie Demers, comedian & author of The Horrors
Jane Silcott and Fiona Lam have put together the best book on
marriage Ive readand Ive read a bunch! Its an anthology of voices
from writers of diverse cultural backgrounds, life experiences, and
romantic and sexual orientations. So much writing about marriage
aims for depth over breadth (and focuses on heterosexual monogamous
commitment by default)and what I love about this anthology is that
it somehow achieves both depth and breadth. Im so happy to be a
part of italongside a whole bunch of writers I really admire. Mandy
Len Carton, author of How to Fall in Love with Anyone
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