Bøger i Oskana Poetry & Poetics serien

Poet and philosopher Jan Zwicky bears passionate witness to the leading edge of environmental cataclysm.

The House of Charlemagne is a poetic exploration of the life of Honore Jaxon, Louis Riel's last secretary--his dreams, his visions, his life.

Blackbird Song is preoccupied with memory and loss, with life's various traumas, and with the solace that might be possible in relationships with other people and our non-human relations.

Reflections on our salvation in a world of environmental decline.

Sadie McCarney's first full-length poetry collection grapples with mourning, coming of age, and queer identity against the backdrop of rural and small-town Atlantic Canada.

';We began to dig ourselvesdeeper than we dreamedwhen we began to seemetal as other than medicine,our bodies, more than mineral.'From an emerging environmental voice comes an evocative, multilayered poetry collection about extraction, destruction, and the erasure of Indigenous people.At Rabbit Lake in Northern Saskatchewan lies the second largest uranium mine in the western world. For decades, uranium ore and its poisonous by-productpitchblende, a highly radioactive rockwere removed, transported, and scattered across the land, forever altering the lives of plants, animals, and people who live there.Elise Marcella Godfrey's Pitchblende is a powerful, political collection that challenges us to urgently rethink our responsibilities to the land, water, and air that sustains all species, and our responsibilities to one another. Inspired by and adapted from testimonies given at the public hearings about the Rabbit Lake mine, which prioritized the voices of industrial interests, Godfrey gathers voices from the found texts, and adds others, in defence of the natural world. Interconnected, Godfreys poems are a choral and visual, literal representation of how industry, capitalism, and colonialism seek to erase affected peoples and their voices.

A satiric and searing collection of poetry obsessed with television, oceans, Jewish history, and time.Nature isn't dying it's simply revising its target audience In Shifting Baseline Syndrome, Aaron Kreuter asks the hard questions: will the Anthropocene have a laugh track? Is it okay to marry your eighteenth cousin? How different would the world look from outside the life-frame of the human? What is it like to have an acid trip in a portapotty? Is it the end . . . of Earth? Of capitalism? Of television? Throughout Kreuter's sophomore collection, the TV remote is never far. Shifting Baseline Syndrome is both searching and searing, veering between satire and sincerity, history and prophecy, and human and non-human worlds. As these clash ecstatically with loathingand with the end loomingKreuter demonstrates why we'll keep doing what we've always done: hoping, for once, that the series finale will be good.

An award-winning poet attempts to map the brain's neural connections, raising fundamental questions about identity and interiority. This intricate, yearning work from award-winning poet Alison Calder asks us to think about the way we perceive and the ways in which we seek to know ourselves and others. In Synaptic,each section explores key themes in science, neurology, and perception. The first, Connectomics, riffs on scientific language to work with and against that language's intentions. Attempting to map the brain's neural connections, it raises fundamental questions about interiority and the self. The lyric considerations in these poems are juxtaposed against the scientific-like footnotes which, in turn, invoke questions undermining authority and power. The second section, Other Disasters, explores ways of seeing or and being seen, from considerations of folklore to modern art to daily life. The speakers in these poems are searching for knowledge. Everyone is looking for a miracle.

The powerful debut from author and poet M.W. Jaeggle. Like the coastal zone where high tides deposit organic materials and other debris, M.W. Jaeggle's Wrack Line traces loss, guilt, and subsequent loneliness, while exploring regenerative possibilities of language, memory, and land, taking readers on a journey that will leave them like "A black horse...winded at the gate" of some new grace.