46 Canadian poetry collections to watch for in spring 2023
If you love poetry, watch for these books coming out in the first half of 2023.
The Ridge by Robert Bringhurst
The Ridge is a nonfiction poetry collection that uses metaphor and provocative imagery to reflect on the ecological history and future of the West Coast of Canada.
When you can read it: March 4, 2023
Robert Bringhurst is a writer and former Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. His poetry collection The Beauty of the Weapons was shortlisted for a Governor General's Literary Award in 1982 and his nonfiction book A Story as Sharp as a Knife was shortlisted for a Governor General's Literary Award in 2000.
In 1985, he won the CBC Poetry Prize for his poem The Blue Roofs of Japan and later won the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence in 2005. He is also a recipient of the Order of Canada and lives on Quadra Island, B.C.
the trick of staying and leaving by David Zieroth
David Zieroth's latest poetry collection, the trick of staying and leaving, is about relationships across borders and the universal ways we can all find love.
When you can read it: March 4, 2023
Zieroth is a Vancouver writer. His poetry collection The Fly in Autumn won the Governor General's Literary Award and was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Acorn-Plantos Award for People's Poetry in 2010. Zieroth also won The Dorothy Livesay Poetry Award for How I Joined Humanity at Last. His other work includes watching for life, the bridge from day to night and Zoo and Crowbar.
Heating the Outdoors by Marie-Andrée Gill, translated by Kristen Renee Miller
Heating the Outdoors is a collection of micropoems that explore love and writing as decolonial resilience. Marie-Andrée Gill examines her interior world of heartbreak, love and loss through examining the historical subjugation and reclamation of land and language.
When you can read it: March 7, 2023
Marie-Andrée Gill combines her Quebec and Inu identities through her writing. Her work deals with decolonization and territory while blending kitsch and existentialism. In 2018, Gill won an Indigenous Voices Award. She is also the author of the poetry collections Spawn, Béante and Chauffer le dehors.
Kristen Renee Miller is a writer and translator currently living in Kentucky. She previously translated Gill's poetry collection Spawn.
Spells, Wishes and the Talking Dead by Wanda John-Kehewin
Spells, Wishes and the Talking Dead explores the beauty and liberty of the Cree language and compares it to the English language. Wanda John-Kehewin also pulls from her family's lived experience, examining the impact of colonialism on her family alongside a historical timeline that begins with the so-called doctrine of discovery and moving through time to the present-day.
When you can read it: March 14, 2023
John-Kehewin is a Cree writer, poet and film scriptwriter. She is the author of the Dreams series of graphic novels, including Visions of the Crow. Her other work includes Seven Sacred Truths, Hopeless in Hope and In the Dog House, which won the World Poetry Foundation's Empowered Poet Award.
Song & Dread by Otoniya J. Okot Bitek
Otoniya J. Okot Bitek wrote her latest collection, Song & Dread, inside during the early days of the pandemic, observing the emotions and experiences of a slow life in isolation. Song & Dread takes inventory of the value of community and what becomes normalized in the face of survival.
When you can read it: March 15, 2023
Bitek is a poet and scholar. Her collection 100 Days was nominated for the BC Book Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, the Alberta Book Awards and the Canadian Authors Award for Poetry. It won the 2017 IndieFab Book of the Year Award for poetry and the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry. She was also longlisted for the 2018 CBC Poetry Prize.
Dislocations by Karen Enns
Karen Enns's latest collection, Dislocations, examines human and animals lives through the themes of weather and seasons.
When you can read it: March 18, 2023
Enns is the author of three previous books of poetry: Cloud Physics, which won the Raymond Souster Award, Ordinary Hours and That Other Beauty. She lives in Victoria.
The Natural Hustle by Eva H.D.
The Natural Hustle explores the intimacy of everyday life, poking at profound truths and provoking introspection.
When you can read it: March 21, 2023
Eva H.D. is the author of Rotten Perfect Mouth, Light Wounds, which was co-produced with photographer Kendall Townend, and the short film Jackals & Fireflies.
Continent by Aaron Boothby
Aaron Boothby's debut poetry collection, Continent, contemplates violence across borders and the roles people play in taking part in, being a victim to, or witnessing such violence. In examining the harm humans inflict on one another, Boothby presses forward, reflecting on how we can move past it and see beyond a continent's worth of pain.
When you can read it: March 21, 2023
Boothby is a poet from Riverside, Calif., now living in Montreal. His work has appeared in carte blanche, Prism and The Puritan, as well as two chapbooks: Reperspirations, Exhalations, Wrapt Inflections and Wave Fields.
Wires that Sputter by Britta Badour
Britta Badour's debut collection of poetry, Wires that Sputter, explores topics like pop culture, sports, family dynamics and Black liberation.
When you can read it: March 21, 2023
Badour, better known as Britta B., is an artist, public speaker and poet living in Toronto. She is the recipient of the 2021 Breakthrough Artist Award from the Toronto Arts Foundation. She teaches spoken word performance at Seneca College.
More Sure by A. Light Zachary
A. Light Zachary's debut collection, More Sure, is about the process of finding oneself again and again through time, experience and community. The poet explores themes of queerness, neurodivergence, labour, love and family.
When you can read it: March 28, 2023
Zachary is a writer, editor and teacher living in Toronto and Grande-Digue, N.B. Zachary was longlisted twice for the 2021 CBC Poetry Prize for their poems Two Girls and Why bury yourself in this place you ask.
Entre Rive and Shore by Dominique Bernier-Cormier
Dominique Bernier-Cormier uses a family myth in Entre Rive and Shore to discuss what it means to live between two languages. For him, that's English and French. For his family, the story goes that Bernier-Cormier's ancestor escaped a British prison the night before the Acadian Deportation by disguising his identity by wearing a dress. Bernier-Cormier explores the limitations and fluidity of translation.
When you can read it: March 28, 2023
Bernier-Cormier is a Québécois Acadian poet and translator. His first book, Correspondent, was longlisted for the Raymond Souster Award. He lives in Vancouver, where he writes and teaches in both English and French.
A thin fire runs through me by Kim Trainor
A thin fire runs through me examines the tiny and mundane moments in life that exist amid ecological disaster and political turmoil. Written during a period of heartbreak, depression and new love, Trainor's collection of short poems pull from many places, including current events, Jewish liturgy and lyricism.
When you can read it: March 28, 2023
Kim Trainor is the author of the poetry collections Karyotype and Ledi. Her poems have won the Fiddlehead's Ralph Gustafson Prize, the Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, the Great Blue Heron Prize. Her poem Desolation made the 2019 CBC Poetry Prize longlist. She lives in Vancouver.
Chores by Maggie Burton
Chores is a semi-autobiographical collection about motherhood and domestic life. Maggie Burton examines everyday life with humour, direct language and a feminist lens.
When you can read it: April 1, 2023
Burton is a multidisciplinary artist and writer living in St. John's.
Baby Book by Amy Ching-Yan Lam
Baby Book locates mundane and everyday experiences, such as a family vacation via bus tour, to discuss how belief systems are first formed and how everything we know about power, death, life and property can be formed and reformed again and again.
When you can read it: April 1, 2023
Amy Ching-Yan Lam is a Toronto-based artist and writer. She is the author of Looty Goes to Heaven. Baby Book is her first collection of poetry.
Love is a Place But You Cannot Live There by Jade Wallace
Jade Wallace's debut poetry collection, Love is a Place But You Cannot Live There, examines the way people are formed by their environment and one another. Through a series of unique and varied characters, including two ghost hunters in a dying relationship and a mother-daughter duo stuck in an undesirable vacation, Love is a Place But You Cannot Live There calls out the voids in all of us and urges us to respond back.
When you can read it: April 1, 2023
Wallace is a writer and editor. Love Is A Place But You Cannot Live There is their first book.
Optic Nerve by Matthew Hollett
Matthew Hollett employs wordplay and a specific kind of playfulness in poems about photography, perception and ways of seeing in the poetry collection Optic Nerve. Hollett dissects the way we see the world, from perspectives such as the inside of an eyeball to the impact of a bomb crater.
When you can read it: April 3, 2023
Hollett is a writer and visual artist in St. John's. He published his debut book, Album Rock, in 2018. Hollett won the 2020 CBC Poetry Prize for Tickling the Scar.
Celebrate Pride with Lockheed Martin by Jake Byrne
Jake Byrne's debut poetry collection, Celebrate Pride with Lockheed Martin, chronicles modern queer life, including the writer's thoughts on the appropriation of queer culture in capitalism and war. Sharp imagery, incisive critiques and playful, sexual tones layer the poems.
When you can read it: April 4, 2023
Byrne is a poet and writer based in Toronto.
Way to Go by Richard Sanger
In Way to Go, Richard Sanger uses poetry to explore his passions, give gratitude and provide humourous observations about a life well-lived.
When you can read it: April 4, 2023
Sanger was a writer who grew up in Ottawa and lived in Toronto. He published three poetry collections and a chapbook. His plays included Not Spain, Two Words for Snow, Hannah's Turn, and Dive. He also published essays, reviews and poetry translations.
Trinity Street by Jen Currin
Jen Currin's latest collection of poetry, Trinity Street, explores the concept of a flawed utopia, imaginary gardens and the worlds of the living and the dead. Trinity Street is wide-ranging in its themes and topics, including a meditation on friendship amid climate crisis and the grief of late capitalism.
When you can read it: April 4, 2023
Currin is a B.C. writer who teaches writing at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Jen's first collection of stories, Hider/Seeker, was awarded a Canadian Independent Book Award and was named a 2018 Globe and Mail Best Book. Their previous collections of poetry include The Sleep of Four Cities, Hagiography, The Inquisition Yours and School.
Xanax Cowboy by Hannah Green
Hannah Green's poetry collection is about Xanax Cowboy, a larger-than-life, spitfire character who Green uses to reflect on mental health, alienation and the Wild West.
When you can read it: April 4, 2023
Green is a Winnipeg-based writer and poetry editor. She was a poetry finalist for the 2021 Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers.
Gills by Ayòmide Bayowa
Ayòmide Bayowa's debut poetry collection, Gills, explores themes of race, identity and the Black diaspora.
When you can read it: April 4, 2023
Bayowa is a Nigerian Canadian poet, actor and filmmaker. He is the current poet laureate of Mississauga, Ont.
Put Flowers Around Us and Pretend We're Dead by Catherine Graham
Put Flowers Around Us and Pretend We're Dead chronicles 20 years of Catherine Graham's award-winning work, including poems that explore themes of family, healing, loss, love and the natural world.
When you can read it: April 4, 2023
Graham is the author of eight collections of poetry, including Æther: An Out-of-Body Lyric, which was shortlisted for the 2021 Toronto Book Awards. Her debut novel, Quarry, won an Independent Publisher Book Awards gold medal for fiction. Graham lives in Toronto, where she teaches creative writing and leads the Toronto International Festival of Authors Book Club.
The Four-Doored House by Pierre Nepveu, translated by Donald Winkler
In The Four-Doored House, Pierre Nepveu forms poetry around two women in his life: his granddaughter, Lily, and a woman named "C." The collection begins with poems about Lily and her possible future as Nepveu projects a version of her grown-up life, their relationship and his eventual absence from her life. Next, poems about "C" reveal the value of her companionship in his life as a source of inspiration. Honouring both women, these poems are a celebration of childhood and love.
When you can read it: April 5, 2023
Nepveu has received the Governor General's Award three times. His other awards include the Québec-Paris Prize, the Prix Victor-Barbeau de l'Académie des lettres du Québec and the Canada-Swiss Prize. Nepveu was made a member of the Order of Canada in 2012. Under its original title, L'espace caressé par ta voix, The Four-Doored House was a finalist for The Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal in 2020.
Donald Winkler is a filmmaker and translator from Montreal. He won the Governor General's Literary Award for French-to-English translation for The Lyric Generation: The Life and Times of the Baby-Boomers by François Ricard, Partita for Glenn Gould by Georges Leroux and The Major Verbs by Pierre Nepveu. Two books translated by him have been shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize: A Secret Between Us by Daniel Poliquin in 2007 and Arvida by Samuel Archibald in 2015.
archipelago by Laila Malik
archipelago is a collection of lyrical poems exploring family dynamics and self-identity in the face of multigenerational migration.
When you can read it: April 6, 2023
Laila Malik is a writer living in Adobigok, the traditional land of Indigenous communities that include the Anishinaabe, Seneca, Mohawk Haudenosaunee, and Wendat. archipelago is her debut poetry collection.
A beautiful rebellion by Rita Bouvier
A beautiful rebellion is a poetry collection about reconciling with the loss and pain caused by residential schools. Rita Bouvier writes with an open heart and an eye toward future generations of Métis people.
When you can read it: April 10, 2023
Bouvier is the author of two poetry collections, Blueberry Clouds and papîyâhtak. She has been nominated for several Saskatchewan Book Awards.
Safety Razor by Emily Osborne
Safety Razor combines science and personal experience, as well as lyricism and translation from Old Norse to navigate wide-reaching emotional terrain.
When you can read it: April 14, 2023
Emily Osborne's poetry, short fiction and Old Norse-to-English verse translations have appeared in journals and anthologies including The Literary Review of Canada and Barren Magazine. She is the author of the poetry chapbook Biometrical. In 2018, Osborne won The Malahat Review's Far Horizons Award for Poetry. Safety Razor is her debut poetry collection.
Swans by Michelle Brown
Swans is a narrative poetry collection following three best friends on a regular night out that quickly turns into a surrealist coming-of-age before dawn. Michelle Brown writes about tense female friendships, alcoholism, spontaneity and sexuality.
When you can read it: April 15, 2023
Brown is a poet living on the west coast of Canada. Brown's first full-length collection of poetry, Safe Words, was shortlisted for the 2018 ReLit award.
body works by Dennis Cooley
Body works compassionately contemplates the body in all its forms as a way of thinking about mortality, illness, growth and the eternal.
When you can read it: April 15, 2023
Dennis Cooley is a teacher, poet and editor who grew up in Saskatchewan and now lives in Winnipeg. His other poetry collections include The Bestiary, cold press moon, Gibbous Moon and The Muse Sings.
A knife so sharp its edge cannot be seen by Erin Noteboom
Erin Noteboom uses the lyric form to write about illness, grief and loss in A knife so sharp its edge cannot be seen. The former-physicist-turned-writer tests hypotheses about sadness, science and love to ask important existential questions.
When you can read it: April 15, 2023
Noteboom is a former physicist who currently writes poetry and young adult novels. Originally from Nebraska, Noteboom came to Canada in 1997. Her poetry collections include Seal Up the Thunder.
Noteboom won the CBC Poetry Prize in 2001 for her poem Poems for Carl Hruska and made the 2021 CBC Poetry Prize longlist for her poem How to write at the end of the world.
Noteboom publishes YA fiction under the name Erin Bow. Her novels include Plain Kate, The Scorpion Rules, The Swan Riders, Stand on the Sky and Sorrow's Knot. Plain Kate won the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award in 2011.
The Suspect We by Roxanna Bennet & Shane Neilson
Written in social isolation during the pandemic, The Suspect We is a nonfiction poetry collection chronicling Roxanna Bennet and Shane Neilson's concerns with the pandemic conditions and barriers faced by mad, neurodivergent, and disabled communities.
When you can read it: April 15, 2023
Bennett is a poet from Whitby, Ont. Their other poetry collections include Unmeaningable and The Uncertainty Principle. Unmeaningable won the 2020 Raymond Souster Award from the League of Canadian Poets and the 2020 Trillium Book Award for poetry.
Neilson is a disabled poet, physician and critic from New Brunswick. He is the author of four books of nonfiction about medicine and literary criticism. His poetry collections include You May Not Take the Sad and Angry Consolations, Dysphoria, which won the Hamilton Literary Award for Poetry and Complete Physical, a finalist for the Trillium Award. Neilson now lives in Oakville, Ont.
A Devil Every Day by John Nyman
A Devil Every Day employs philosophy, critical theory and folk theology interrogates where white Western culture devolves into evil. John Nyman contemplates the everyday monstrosity of the modern West.
When you can read it: April 15, 2023
Nyman is a Toronto-based poet, critic and book artist of mixed European and Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. His previous works include Players, which was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award.
Your Therapist Says Its Magical Thinking by Sadie McCarney
Sadie McCarney's second collection, Your Therapist Says Its Magical Thinking, pulls from a mix of her lived experience and historical fiction to explore neurodivergence, mental health and our current "self-care" culture in a whimsical, fragmented and honest way.
When you can read it: April 18, 2023
Sadie McCarney is a P.E.I-based author of the poetry collection Live Ones and the poetry memoir Head War. Her work has appeared in Best Canadian Poetry, The Walrus, Literary Review of Canada, the Gay & Lesbian Review, and various literary journals.
Uiesh / Somewhere by Joséphine Bacon, translated by Phyllis Aronoff
Uiesh / Somewhere is a collection of short poems in which Joséphine Bacon writes directly to her reader about her life as a Innu woman.
When you can read it: April 18, 2023
Bacon is an Innu poet born in Québec and now living in Montréal. Her poetry has won many awards, including the Indigenous Voices Award, the international Ostana Prize and the Prix des libraires du Québec, and has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry and the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal.
Phyllis Aronoff translates fiction, nonfiction and poetry from French, solo or with co-translator Howard Scott, with whom she won the Governor General's Literary Award for translation in 2018 for Descent Into Darkness by Edem Awumey. Aronoff received the Quebec Writers' Federation Translation Award in 2002 for The Great Peace of Montreal of 1701 by Gilles Havard. She previously translated Bacon's poetry book, Message Sticks.
A Net of Momentary Sapphire by R. Kolewe
A Net of Momentary Sapphire is a three-part long poem examining the impacts of 20th century modernism.
When you can read it: April 25, 2023
Born in Montreal, R. Kolewe spent many years working in the software industry while living in southwestern Ontario. He now writes and captures photographs full-time. His work includes Afterletters and Inspecting Nostalgia.
If It Gets Quiet Later On, I Will Make a Display by Nick Thran
If It Gets Quiet Later On, I Will Make a Display is a collection of poems and essays on the interior lives of booksellers, readers and writers. Nick Thran, a bookseller himself, captures the passion and heart of reading communities.
When you can read it: April 29, 2023
Thran is the author of three collections of poems. His second collection, Earworm, won the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. He works as an editor and bookseller in New Brunswick.
Old Gods by Conor Kerr
Old Gods is a poetry collection in motion. From coyotes that race through the night to buses that drive from region to region or people that search for lost loves on the Internet, Conor Kerr's book is a meditation on the travels humans and animals take over time. The poet places readers in the "Métis mindset," showing that wherever one is in the natural world, there is life in the rivers, the hills and the prairies we travel on.
When you can read it: April 29, 2023
Kerr is a Métis and Ukrainian educator, writer and harvester. He is a member of the Métis Nation of Alberta and is descended from the Gladue, Ginther and Quinn families from the Lac Ste. Anne and Fort Des Prairies Métis communities and the Papaschase Cree Nation. His poem Prairie Ritual was on the 2021 CBC Poetry Prize longlist.
Kerr won the 2022 Novel ReLit Award for his debut novel Avenue of Champions, which was also longlisted for the 2022 Giller Prize and a finalist for the 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel Award.
Mattress Makers by Sasenarine Persaud
In Mattress Makers, Sasenarine Persaud explores his Indian roots through language, traditions, music and paying homage to beloved writers.
When you can read it: April 30, 2023
Born in Guyana, Persaud has published essays in various journals about the term he originated, Yogic Realism. He has lived in Canada and now makes his home in Florida.
Duck Eats Yeast, Quacks, Explodes; Man Loses Eye by Gary Barwin & Lillian Necakov
Duck Eats Yeast, Quacks, Explodes; Man Loses Eye is a poetic conversation between its two authors. While the book-length poem explores themes of trauma, war, culture polarization and illness, it makes a case for unabashed joy.
When you can read it: May 1, 2023
Gary Barwin is a writer, composer, visual and multidisciplinary artist and the author of more than two dozen books of poetry, fiction and books for children. He lives in Hamilton, Ont.
His national bestselling novel Yiddish for Pirates won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour as well as the Canadian Jewish Literary Award (Fiction). It was also a finalist for both the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. In 2017, he published the poetry collection No TV for Woodpeckers and in 2022, another collection The Most Charming Creatures.
His novel Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted won a 2021 Canadian Jewish Literary Award in the fiction category.
Lillian Necakov is the Toronto-based author of about a dozen poetry chapbooks, including The Lake Contains an Emergency Room, and four full-length collections, including Hooligans and The Bone Broker.
Slows: Twice by T. Liem
Slows: Twice is a book of repetition: each poem is paired with a mirror poem as a way of exploring identity, time and the hopeful potential of the future. The speaker of the poems searches for joy in the future while in the presence of their father's birthplace or a Motel 6 in Alberta or an aisle in the grocery store.
When you can read it: May 5. 2023
T. Liem is a queer writer living in Montreal. Their debut collection Obits was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award and won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award in as well as the A.M. Klein Prize in 2019.
Sargasso Sea Scrolls by Dannabang Kuwabong
Dannabang Kuwabong's poetry collection Sargasso Sea Scrolls is provocative and candid, taking readers to the Dutch Caribbean island Curacao where the writer makes connections between language, food and nature, while also paying tribute to experiences of slaves in history and his present-day experiences in his homeland and beyond.
When you can read it: May 15, 2023
Kuwabong is a Ghanaian Canadian poet who lives in Hamilton, Ont.
Moving Upstream by Mary Barnes
Mary Barnes's second poetry collection Moving Upstream is a love letter to the natural world inspire by her Ojibwa roots.
When you can read it: May 18, 2023
Barnes is an Ontario writer of Ojibwa descent. Her first collection of poetry, What Fox Knew, was released in 2019 and was nominated for The League of Canadian Poets Pat Lowther Award and the Manuela Dias Award.
Continuity Errors by Catriona Wright
Continuity Errors is a meditation and critique on the pitfalls of hustle culture.The feminist collection imagines the future Wright's son will inherit and questions whether hyper-productivity will move humans forward to a type of future loving parents desire for their children.
When you can read it: May 23, 2023
Catriona Wright is the author of the poetry collection Table Manners and the short story collection Difficult People. She is the poetry editor for The Puritan and a co-founder of Desert Pets Press.
Reckoning by Patrick Friesen
Reckoning is a long poem that takes inventory of life and its meanings. Ushering in memories and snippets of conversations to musings and metaphors pulled from every area of living, Patrick Friesen asks important questions in his observance of the personal and universal.
When you can read it: May 31, 2023
Friesen has published more than a dozen books of poetry, a book of essays, stage and radio plays, and has co-translated, with Per Brask, five books of Danish poetry, including Frayed Opus for Strings & Wind Instruments by Ulrikka Gernes.
The Vanishing Act (& The Miracle After) by Mirabel
The Vanishing Act (& The Miracle After) is a meditation on grief and recovery. The speaker of the poem disentangles lived experience and social issues as a woman of colour and survivor of abuse and self-harm. Split into two sections, one focusing on turmoil and the other on renewal, the book explores the nuances of agency amid loss and the creativity involved in surviving.
When you can read it: June 1, 2023
Avleen K. Mokha, also known as Mirabel, is a Montreal-based poet.
Muster Points by Lucas Crawford
Lucas Crawford's latest collection, Muster Points, is about queer love, kink, depression and pleasure. Chronicling periods of his life while quarantined in the mountains at the beginning of the pandemic, Crawford writes candidly about his experiences as a genderqueer guy journeying through the ruins of heterosexual culture, remaking masculinity and the fluidity of both queer love and regret.
When you can read it: June 15, 2023
Crawford is a writer and Canada Research Chair of Transgender Creativity and Mental Health at the Augustana Faculty of the University of Alberta. Crawford's poetry collection Belated Bris of the Brainsick won the J.M. Abraham Poetry Award at the 2020 Atlantic Book Awards. Crawford is also the author of the poetry collections Sideshow Concessions and The High Line Scavenger Hunt. The poet was a 2020 CBC Poetry Prize reader.
Bramah's Quest by Renée Sarojini Saklikar
The second instalment of Renée Sarojini Saklikar's fantasy poetry saga, Bramah's Quest is a book-length long poem about a demigoddess named Bramah who, in 2087, is on a mission to find her people in an Earth corrupted by extreme inequality and climate change.
When you can read it: June 24, 2023
Saklikar is a lawyer and writer born in India who now lives in Vancouver. She is also the author of the poetry collections Bramah and the Beggar Boy and children of air india and the nonfiction book Listening to the Bees, which she co-authored with Dr. Mark Winston.
