Jennifer Bowering Delisle was born in Edmonton, AB, and has published poetry, fiction and non-fiction in various literary magazines. She holds a PhD in English 2008 from the University of British Columbia and is the author of The Newfoundland Diaspora: Mapping the Literature of Out-Migration. She currently resides in Edmonton, AB.
Praise for The Bosun Chair
A treasure-box of Newfoundland lore, collected by the
great-granddaughter of not one, but two, shipwreck-braving poets,
The Bosun Chair's seamless movement between memoir, poetry,
interview and historical document echoes Ondaatje's early
genre-blending lyric prose. Deslisle tenderly imagines a family
history of the ancestral Newfoundland she never knew.
Sonnet L'Abbe, author of A Strange Relief
[T]he author's delicate language will have you feeling comfortable
as you swing from moment to moment and piece together her myriad
stories.
WHERE Edmonton
Poetic linking throughout the book ... reminds us of the gaps in
our own identity. In the end, Delisle helps us realize that
construction of identity is an ongoing, slippery and deliberate
journey.
Elizabeth Johnston, Atlantic Books Today
The Bosun Chair, with its transparency of process and its
artful blend of reportage, poetry, and prose, shines a light on
migration's dark sea.
Susan Olding, The Malahat Review
[The Bosun Chair] resonates with a subtle charm and quiet
beauty, and the small outports of Newfoundland indeed become our
imagined place, as well as Delisle's.
Suzanne James, Canadian Literature
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