150+ Canada's History in Poetry, an anthology edited by Judy Gaudet Acorn Press, 2017, 978-1-927502-90-7
"Judy Gaudet has collected poems that tell our story in a unique way: through the personal passions and concerns of artists who offer a range of encounters and attitudes. The poets represent a wide variety of Canadian experience: Indigenous, immigrant, and people from every part of the country and period of our history providing a solid representation of Canadian diversity." - the publisher
"This book is an exceedingly important and valuable anthology, a major accomplishment and contribution." - Richard Lemm (Jeopardy, Acorn Press, 2018)
"PEI poet Gaudet has created a genre-defying book that's one of a kind, and perfect for poetry and history lovers coast-to-coast." - 49th shelf.com
There is such complexity to the history of any nation, especially a colonial one embedded in a longer Indigenous history, that all the facts, figures dates and names can never do it justice. Enter the poets, unleash their gift for evocative language and let emotion convey a deeper meaning. This is history, yes, but from a different slant. Gaudet has included work from diverse sources, the well known and frequently awarded to the folk writers and emerging talents. The voices here are Indigenous, immigrant and settler. In these sophisticated tellings of history and the powerful truths of our past emerge guidance for a better future. - Atlantic Books Today, 2017
"This book is an exceedingly important and valuable anthology, a major accomplishment and contribution." - Richard Lemm (Jeopardy, Acorn Press, 2018)
"PEI poet Gaudet has created a genre-defying book that's one of a kind, and perfect for poetry and history lovers coast-to-coast." - 49th shelf.com
There is such complexity to the history of any nation, especially a colonial one embedded in a longer Indigenous history, that all the facts, figures dates and names can never do it justice. Enter the poets, unleash their gift for evocative language and let emotion convey a deeper meaning. This is history, yes, but from a different slant. Gaudet has included work from diverse sources, the well known and frequently awarded to the folk writers and emerging talents. The voices here are Indigenous, immigrant and settler. In these sophisticated tellings of history and the powerful truths of our past emerge guidance for a better future. - Atlantic Books Today, 2017
Conversation with Crows - Oberon Press 2014. 978-07780-1428-7
Crows may have something to tell us. But are we listening? Despair over our destructiveness, gratitude for a life being lived, hope that patterns greater than ours will continue: these are the three crows that call to us in these poems.
"Thoughtful, evocative, and moving." - the publisher.
"Conversation with Crows brings all people to accord with nature by celebrating 'beauty, our vulnerability/unity'" - Wording Around, St Thomas U student review
Judges' citation for short-list nomination for Prince Edward Island Poetry Book Award 2016:
"Beware nature as Trickster. In "Conversations with Crows", Judy Gaudet encircles us in the temporal beauty of the sly physical world, while pressing the need to move through it with audacity and fearlessness. The sensitive language of the poet always suggests the choice is ours to make. Despair gives way to responsiveness, adaptability, and hope, as each entry moves closer to the sometimes unpredictable relationship between the inner and outer world."
Crows may have something to tell us. But are we listening? Despair over our destructiveness, gratitude for a life being lived, hope that patterns greater than ours will continue: these are the three crows that call to us in these poems.
"Thoughtful, evocative, and moving." - the publisher.
"Conversation with Crows brings all people to accord with nature by celebrating 'beauty, our vulnerability/unity'" - Wording Around, St Thomas U student review
Judges' citation for short-list nomination for Prince Edward Island Poetry Book Award 2016:
"Beware nature as Trickster. In "Conversations with Crows", Judy Gaudet encircles us in the temporal beauty of the sly physical world, while pressing the need to move through it with audacity and fearlessness. The sensitive language of the poet always suggests the choice is ours to make. Despair gives way to responsiveness, adaptability, and hope, as each entry moves closer to the sometimes unpredictable relationship between the inner and outer world."
Her Teeth Are Stones - from Acorn Press, 2005. 1-894838-19-X
"The poems are marked by the toughness of wholly looking and experiencing, and are leavened by wry humour and true gratitude for the beauty and magic that touch the earth's days and our human ones." - the publisher.
"Within the pages (of this book) are fresh insights into the poet's PEI: the natural world, family, ancestors and friends. This is a large book." - Joe Sherman. (Beautiful Veins, Acorn, 2006)
"Witty and perceptive, these poems are shaped with large hands, a hungry heart, and an astonishing set of eyes." - Hugh MacDonald.(This is a Love Song, Black Moss, 2011)
"The poems are marked by the toughness of wholly looking and experiencing, and are leavened by wry humour and true gratitude for the beauty and magic that touch the earth's days and our human ones." - the publisher.
"Within the pages (of this book) are fresh insights into the poet's PEI: the natural world, family, ancestors and friends. This is a large book." - Joe Sherman. (Beautiful Veins, Acorn, 2006)
"Witty and perceptive, these poems are shaped with large hands, a hungry heart, and an astonishing set of eyes." - Hugh MacDonald.(This is a Love Song, Black Moss, 2011)
You're Flying, Baby Acorn Press, 2016