Re-Origin of Species

Winner of RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers Winner of CBC Poetry Prize Shortlisted for the 2020 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award Longlisted for the 2020 Pat Lowther Memorial Award From hybrid bodies to shifting landscapes, Re-Origin of Species blurs the lines of the real. These poems journey through illness and altered states to position disability and madness as evolutionary traits; skilled adaptations aligned with ecological change. A lyric contemplation of our relationship to the en