by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 13, 2022
blue gait shauna paull Publisher: Mother Tongue Publishing Book Description blue gait offers witness to another way of living where human and material concerns are not at the centre of things and where human ascendency and heroic catharsis is redressed. Here is sung...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 13, 2022
Pebble Swing Isabella Wang Publisher: Nightwood Editions Book Description Pebble Swing earns its title from the image of stones skipping their way across a body of water, or, in the author’s case, syllables and traces of her mother tongue bouncing back at her from the...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 13, 2022
Ghosthawk Matt RaderPublisher: Nightwood Editions Book Description Ghosthawk is a guidebook of imagination from grasslands to star fields to the weather of the poet’s body. Where’s home in the crises of ecological collapse and mortal illness? Where’s joy with constant...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 13, 2022
No Shelter Henry Doyle Publisher: Anvil Press Book Description Infused with the spirit of Charles Bukowski, these down to earth poems take readers on a hard-scrabble journey, starting from Doyle’s early years as a runaway from foster homes, an incarcerated youth, a...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 13, 2022
Antonyms for Daughter Jenny BoychukPublisher: Véhicule Press Book Description Antonyms for Daughter, Jenny Boychuk’s poetry debut, addresses a harrowing subject: the loss of the poet’s mother to addiction. Deploying a range of forms and techniques astonishing in a...
