Put Flowers Around Us and Pretend We're Dead: New and Selected Poems

Catherine Graham is an award-winning poet, novelist and creative writing instructor. Æther: An Out-of-Body Lyric won the Canadian Authors Association’s Fred Kerner Book Award and was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award and the Toronto Book Award, while her sixth collection of poems, The Celery Forest, was named a CBC Best Book of the Year and was a finalist for the Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry. A previous winner of the Toronto International Festival of Authors’ Poetry NOW, she leads its monthly book club, interviews for By the Lake Book Club, co-hosts The Hummingbird Podcast and teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies where she won an Excellence in Teaching Award. Author of The Most Cunning Heart and the award-winning novel Quarry, she has been a finalist for the Sarton Book Award, the Montreal International Poetry Prize and has won the Miramichi Reader Award for Best Fiction and an IPPY Gold Medal for Fiction.