Molasses Moments - Audrey Howatson

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Résumé :
Molasses Moments is a debut poetry collection that lingers on the sweetness of presence and the ache of memory. These poems travel through landscapes of love and loss, joy and heartbreak, and the fleeting beauty of everyday life. Sometimes playful, sometimes fun, sometimes piercing, they capture the quiet seconds that often slip past unnoticed. Molasses Moments is an invitation to pause, reflect, and discover the extraordinary within the ordinary. For anyone who has paused to savor a fleeting moment, Molasses Moments offers a reminder: life's beauty lives in the now....

Biographie:
For Audrey Howatson, poetry is presence-and a lifelong love. Each poem arrives in the now, a conversation between herself, the world, and something greater than both. Writing often feels like prayer: listening, capturing, and offering the fleeting sparks of life. Sometimes her poems are playful, sometimes lyrical, sometimes sharp with truth, but always an act of love for language and for preserving a moment in time.Audrey's fascination with people and places began during her university studies in Sociology and Geography, where she explored the patterns and depths of human lives. That curiosity grew into her writing, shaped by a devotion to poetry since her teenage years, when her first poems were published by UBC, SFU, and UVic. Her passion has continued to deepen through travel to 79 countries and years spent teaching aboard the Peace Boat, a Japanese-based floating school that strengthened her commitment to education, connection, and social justice. Her debut collection, Molasses Moments, gathers these lived experiences: travel, friendship, love, loss, and the beauty found in the ordinary.Today, Audrey is a teacher in Vancouver, BC, where she lives with her daughter, Aliya, and their two cats, Tokyo and Waikiki. Her writing is rooted in a deep love of poetry, and in capturing the molasses-slow moments that make life extraordinary....

Sommaire:
Molasses Moments is a debut poetry collection that lingers on the sweetness of presence and the ache of memory. These poems travel through landscapes of love and loss, joy and heartbreak, and the fleeting beauty of everyday life. Sometimes playful, sometimes fun, sometimes piercing, they capture the quiet seconds that often slip past unnoticed. Molasses Moments is an invitation to pause, reflect, and discover the extraordinary within the ordinary. For anyone who has paused to savor a fleeting moment, Molasses Moments offers a reminder: life's beauty lives in the now....