Published:
1st edition, 100 copies: December 2019
2nd edition, 100 copies: January 2020
ISBN: 978-0-9868890-7-3
Price: $15 CDN/US including shipping
33 pages
Standard paper, cardstock cover
Status: In Print

Ethel Meilleur's Funny Girl is absolutely a must-read:

Lusty in lung and busty in breath, these poems are

gusty with gusto. You gotta read em aloud, shout em out,

and bust out laughin--appropriately--when you comprehend

the gutsy Black, back-country wisdom, the Africadian, 

aphoristic backtalk, and the bluesy narratives that the poet

throws down. These lyrics are hoe-down, show-down, and

get-down at sundown. Only a serious Funny Girl can deliver

lines like these: "Wrap me in your personality / and roll me

off your tongue // open your mouth and let the river run through /

while I fish into your taste buds." Mmm, mmm, mmm. Amen,

Amen, Amen-Ra, Rah-Rah-Rah.

George Elliott Clarke

7th Parliamentary Poet Laureate (2016 & 2017)

DUST BUNNY GRANNY HERE

Someone asked, Hey Dust Bunny Granny

was ya ever married

damn straight I was

I was married to Bugs Bunny but

he hopped around on me

I divorced him for Goofy

that was a goof-up

I left him for Dagwood

Dagwood fed me so many fattening sandwiches

I gained one hundred and fifty pounds

I left him for Porky Pig and now

I’m full of shit!

Ethel Meilleur was born in 1950 in Truro, Nova Scotia and moved to Montreal in her teens, where she now lives. She has worked in factories, in sales, in domestic and customer service, and late in life returned to high school and continued on as a mature student in creative writing at Concordia University. She has two children, seven grandchildren, and two great grandchildren. Her work in the Timeless Voices anthology by The International Library of Poets earned Meilleur their nomination as Poet of the Year in 2006. Meilleur’s poetry has also appeared in Kola, The Blasted Tree, Concordia Write Nights and various other publications.