
Siteseeing
At Bay Press
Published on 25. October 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
150 pages
978-1-998779-04-8 (ISBN)
Description
Between February 2021 and March 2022, Ariel Gordon and Brenda Schmidt wrote a collaborative poetry manuscript, formatted like a call and response. Ariel intended to write about urban Manitoba, the city and its trees, and Brenda was to write about rural Saskatchewan and birds. Over the course of the year, the matter of place took over and the intentions branched and flew apart. They both wrote birds and trees but also moose and mushrooms, pronghorns and wild turkeys, and people making their way through it all. They wrote climate as it was manifested in drought-stressed trees and stunted crops covered in grasshoppers, in wildfires and wildfire smoke hanging over the prairies. They wrote home as they found it.
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Language
English
Place of publication
MB
Canada
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 190 mm
Width: 126 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
181 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-998779-04-8 (9781998779048)
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Ariel Gordon is a Winnipeg-based author of two collections of urban-nature poetry, both of which won the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. Gordon also co-edited the anthology GUSH: menstrual manifestos for our times (Frontenac House, 2018) and is the ringleader of the National Poetry Month in the Winnipeg Free Press project. Her most recent book is Treed: Walking in Canada's Urban Forests (Wolsak & Wynn, 2019).