by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 11, 2024
Dream House Cathy StonehousePublisher: Nightwood Editions Book Description A long poem in six sections, Dream House takes its cue from Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space in its investigation of female embodiment, calling up such feral, liminal spaces as the...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 11, 2024
Entre Rive and Shore Dominique Bernier-CormierPublisher: icehouse poetry Book Description “I used to think this was a book about a disguise,but now I know that it’s a book about translation.” According to Cormier family lore, Pierrot Cormier escaped a British prison...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 11, 2024
Sonnets From a Cell Bradley PetersPublisher: Brick Books Book Description Moving from riots to mall parkades to church, the poems in Bradley Peters’ debut Sonnets from a Cell mix inmate speech, prison psychology, skateboard slang and contemporary lyricism in a way...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 11, 2024
A Family of Dreamers Samantha NockPublisher: Talonbooks Book Description In this debut poetry collection, Samantha Nock redefines where and what “home” is. A Family of Dreamers delves into the complexities of growing up in rural northeast British Columbia and the...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 11, 2024
Crushed Wild Mint Jess HoustyPublisher: Nightwood Editions Book Description Crushed Wild Mint is a collection of poems embodying land love and ancestral wisdom, deeply rooted to the poet’s motherland and their experience as a parent, herbalist and careful observer of...
