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Brenda Gunn wrote her first poem at the age of 62, when she retired after more than 30 years as a teacher and reading specialist with Edmonton Public Schools. Her first poetry book, Florilegia, is a collection of poems written between 2019 and 2024.
Florilegia (pl): a compilation of excerpts or sententia from other writing. Latin flos(flower) and legere (to gather): a gathering of flowers; a collection of fine extracts from the body of a larger work. Adapted from the Greek anthologia(ἀνθολογία) ‘anthology’. merriam-webster.com
From restive Vikings to small-town teenage longing; a homesteader unsettled on his land, the drudgery of turn-of-the-century ‘women’s work'; a father casting in vain for dissipating memories, a boomer befuddled by advances in technology, the bitter recall of rigid rules at a 1960s dinner table. The poems in Florilegia are wide-ranging, but track a mason's line of common themes — love and loss and the complicated relationships with the places we call home.
