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A Very Twilight Poem

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By Mallory Tater
| Maisonneuve Magazine Verified
I make you feed me lines from Twilight when I am sad. Bella, we're making Italiano for you.You fry garlic, oily ground beef. On the news, Mark Madryga from Global TV tells us that the rain will not cease. I will not cease to utter say it, say it out loud,when the bar is closing and you tell me how much our bill is. You're always reading these days. Facts carried home and pinned to our walls like immortally collected graduation caps, ironic and blue.
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The Birth Yard | Quill and Quire

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By Mallory Tater
| Quill & Quire Verified
by Mallory Tater The harrowing and powerful debut novel from Vancouver writer Mallory Tater begins in September, or, as it is known in the world of the book, Arrival. Sable Ursu has just turned 18. “Everyone on our trail has been born in the same month for three generations since the Den was founded,” Sable explains. “Everyone celebrates their birth together.” That’s not an accident: in the Den, the claustrophobic setting of the story, women’s lives are strictly controlled and moderated.
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A Sense of Place: THE BIRTH YARD Book List

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By Mallory Tater, L.M. Montgomery, Kate Braid, Lynn Coady
| 49th Shelf
The Birth Yard embodies a sense of place that I, as a woman, have always felt inside. I tried to recreate that sense—the internal anxious pang of walking home alone at night with keys between my knuckles, or that feeling of fearfulness when I turned on the news and was told my body was not mine by white right-wing politicians, etc.—into an external reality, "the Den," a cult that controls women’s bodies, fertility, their social and intellectual lives.
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REVIEW: This Will Be Good paints a vivid portrait of growing into womanhood

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By Jemicah Marasigan, Mallory Tater
| This Magazine Verified
This Will Be Good By Mallory Tater Book*hug, $18.00 Praise for This Will Be Good, written by Mallory Tater—a writer from the Algonquin Anishnaabeg Nation (Ottawa)—is thanks to flowing prose that evokes strong emotions. Unabashedly covering topics such as eating disorders, sexuality, and death, Tater’s stylistic voice paints a vivid portrait of a child growing into her womanhood and dealing with what that means.
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