Fields of Light and Stone

Angeline Schellenberg is a poet living in Treaty 1 territory (Winnipeg). Her first full-length collection, Tell Them It Was Mozart, received three Manitoba Book Awards and was a finalist for a ReLit Award for Poetry.

• Everything There Is to Say • ixIn some reminiscent hourLove Letters, 1944–45 • 4–47Time in EvergreenResurrection • 7Tokens of Mercy • 9This Is His Body • 11Threads • 14Beckoning Hills • 16Preaching to the Choir • 17Dementia, Warm October • 18Grandpa’s Day Timers • 21For When You Wondered Why I Wasn’t There • 23The Minute I Heard You Died • 25After Eights • 26Funeral Tape • 28Clouds above CanolaGardening Advice from the Wife of a Pious Pastor • 33The Autumn of Your Cancer • 35Scavenger Hunt • 37Between Seed and Harvest • 38For Your Name’s Sake • 39Closure • 42The Night of the Fair • 44Are you sewing, Mom? • 46Deep Breathing • 48What Little Things Come to Us • 49There Is the Old Brick House • 50Fields of Light and StoneFields • 54Shivered into BeingIn My First Five Year Diary • 57Making Sheep • 58Unwinding • 59Oma’s Girl • 60Bias Binding • 61In Whispers He’s Still the Wanderer • 63All Is Bright • 64As We Left They Sang • 65Edges • 67Division • 69What the Aspens WhisperedUnder the Shadow of Your Name • 73He Made Me Promise to Remember Arkadak • 74Ancient Script • 76Generations • 77Plans to Prosper • 78His Hands • 79Sunset on Deep Bay • 80Souvenir • 81After the Funeral, I Pick up My Box • 82Passages • 83The First Trees • 84Notes • 85Acknowledgements • 89

"Schellenberg’s collection is a love letter to these four people [grandparents] whose lives were so completely intertwined with hers." Kyla Neufeld, Prairie Books Now, Spring/Summer 2020 [Full article at https://prairiebooksnow.ca/articles/view/poet-reflects-on-her-grandparents-lives-through-poetry-and-collected-letters-artifacts]