Happy Birthday Heidi Greco

Heidi Greco by George Ormorean

Heidi was the first writer to sign up with Lipstick Press in 2009 allowing us to publish her beautiful speculative tribute to Amelia Earhart.

Since then Heidi has published a novella called Shrinking Violets,  and her poetry has appeared in many anthologies, including A Verse Map of Vancouver (ed. George McWhirter) and radiant danse uv being (eds Pew, J. & Roxborough, S.)

You can find out more about Heidi through her blog Out on the Big Limb. 

Amelia is Airborne again

Amelia is getting some air time now that the movie starring Hilary Swank is out. This is good news for A: The Amelia Poems, also getting some air time in this weekend's Vancouver Sun - page C6 of the Weekend Review.

Thanks go to abcbookworld for giving the book some wings on author Heidi Greco's bio.

A: The Amelia Poems chapbook launch

You are invited to the launch of Lipstick Press' latest chapbook

A: The Amelia Poems

by Heidi Greco

September 16th, 7:30 - 8:30pm

Pelican Rouge Coffee Shop
White Rock

for further information and to rsvp contact: lipstick@smartt.com

A: The Amelia Poems available July 16

Lipstick Press is pleased to announce its latest chapbook, A: The Amelia Poems by Surrey writer Heidi Greco.

The poems offer a speculative spin on the life of aviator Amelia Earhart, and consider what might have happened after her disappearance in 1937.

They begin with a tender Christmas orange. The skin too acid to digest must be peeled to reveal a globe of sweet fruit. A perfect image of the sweet/sour resolution that comes with a determination to soar above the ordinary, to fly in the face of danger and to hold that "spicy globe" in the palm of a hand and say yes.

Greco is a gifted poet who shows great sensitivity in her exploration of this aviator's courage and intelligence, allowing the reader to visit Amelia in her darkest and most radiant moments.

Think of this tiny chapbook as an artefact left by Earhart, a call that asks the reader to remember “pure Amelia.”


Published by Lipstick Press
767 Chelwood Road, RR 1
Gabriola BC V0R 1X1

lipstickpress@shaw.ca


ISBN 978-0-9781204-2-9

28 pages

Cover design: George Omorean & Heidi Greco

$8 plus shipping and handling
To order send an email to lipstickpress@shaw.ca