Over the past month or so, I’ve been working with Talonbooks editor ryan fitzpatrick on the copyedits for my second poetry collection, Beautiful Unknown Future.
I’m very excited about this collection. I started writing it a couple of years ago when Aaron and I were doing an artist residency in Maple Ridge. It started off slowly, with a poem here and a poem there, and then suddenly I had something I could shape and work with. I was surprised I got to this point because I wasn’t sure if I’d ever write again. My first book took me many years to write and everything felt complicated, but with this collection, it came together in a much more natural feeling way. Perhaps it was the experience of the first one that made writing this book a little more…fun?
I started writing the poems when I was on maternity leave and I wanted to keep some memories of that time. What’s funny about that is the poems ended up not being autobiographical at all. While they started based in my real life, they soon moved into a speculative space that balanced between my life with my family and some thoughts about the future amidst the climate crisis.
I’ll have more on this collection soon, such as a cover! In the meantime, it is available for pre-order now.
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Beautiful Unknown Future is available for pre-order now on most book websites, including: