Description
John Brady McDonald, a Nehiyawak-Metis multidisciplinary artist and writer from Treaty Six Territory, and the author of five books, was shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award in 2022. He was a finalist for the High Plains Book Award that same year, and a finalist for the 2023 Lambda Literary Award in New York City.
His raw, lyrical poems are a glimpse of the birth of a poet, recklessly using language and words with abandon and without restraint. It is the poetry of an individual experimenting with the language, influenced by the works of Shakespeare and Jim Morrison, mixed with the teenage goth writing style of youth—the base metals from which a lifetime of words was forged.
Originally published by Kegedonce Press in 2004, The Glass Lodge was presented across Canada and the US at esteemed festivals. Chosen for the First Nation Communities Read program, it was also nominated for the Anskohk Aboriginal Book of the Year in 2005. Since that first edition went out of print a few years ago, McDonald has re-edited and restored the work. He also rediscovered many of the original, handwritten poems, which serve as illustrations in this new edition.