by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 8, 2021
Burning Province Michael PriorPublisher: McClelland & Stewart Book Description Amid the record-breaking wildfires that scorched British Columbia in 2015 and 2017, the poems in this collection move seamlessly between geographical and psychological landscapes,...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 8, 2021
eat salt | gaze at the ocean Junie DésilPublisher: Talonbooks Book Description eat salt | gaze at the ocean explores the themes of Black sovereignty, Haitian sovereignty, and Black lives, using the Haitian (original) zombie as a metaphor for the condition and...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 8, 2021
I Am Still Your Negro An Homage to James Baldwin Valerie Mason-JohnPublisher: University of Alberta Press Book Description Spoken-word poet Valerie Mason-John unsettles readers with potent images of ongoing trauma from slavery and colonization. Her narratives range...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 8, 2021
The East Side of it All Joseph DandurandPublisher: Nightwood Editions Book Description The East Side of It All draws on Joseph Dandurand’s first-hand experiences of life as a drug user and single-room occupant in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, and of the ongoing...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 8, 2021
Music at the Heart of Thinking Improvisations 1-170 Fred WahPublisher: Talonbooks Book Description The music of thinking. The thinking of music. Music at the Heart of Thinking is a poetry that works through language as the true practice of thought and improvisation as...
