When Whales Went Back to the Water
Forthcoming from UAlberta Press in spring 2025.
Persephone’s Crickets
Persephone’s Crickets is a series of poems (with a concluding essay) in conversation with the Persephone myth, upending the traditional narrative to imagine increased agency for Persephone in the face of this much-told tale of abduction and captivity.
The chapbook is exquisitely hand-sewn by Karen Schindler at Baseline Press, a poetry micropress based in London ON.
Now available for pre-order from the Baseline shop.
Winter’s Cold Girls
This fresh and visceral debut explores themes of trauma and recovery, everyday violence, and queerness from a personal point of view as well as a wider political context. These poems are interested in the resilience of bodies and sexualities, often grounded in an earthy humour. The style shifts from lyric to deeply personal narrative to fantastical: an old woman plants broken light bulbs and harvests dark flowers, two sisters grow feathers in a nest in the backyard maple, a mother turns into a deer and escapes the unspeakable through a kitchen window. These are poems of disruption, discovery, and witness—balancing brutal honesty with a welcoming intensity. They want you to come close.
Available from Caitlin Press or from your local bookstore, Winter’s Cold Girls was shortlisted for the 2020 Relit Award for poetry.
