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Tag: Chapbooks – 2023

  • knick-knacks/ things no one is saying by SJ Valiquette

    knick-knacks/ things no one is saying

    by SJ Valiquette

    Publication Date: 5 December 2023
    Nightingale & Sparrow Press

    Genre: Poetry

    For the past few years I’ve had a fixation with grief and anger and how we move through and express those emotions. It started as a deep dive into my own grief and then became an ongoing conversation with my community and loved ones. This collection is a reflection of those conversations, lessons, and discoveries.

    knick-knacks/ things no one is saying is an exploration of how grief and anger live in the body, what happens when they are neglected, and what it is to live right on the precipice of those experiences, and how to honour and occupy those emotional states while existing in public spaces that doesn’t always know how to accommodate them.

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    SJ Valiquette

    About the Author

    SJ Valiquette (she/ they) is a queer artist from Treaty 7 Territory. She is an actor, an internationally published poet and photographer, and the creator and curator of the (re)markable project. They hold a BFA in Theatre from the University of Victoria, and have studied at the Banff Centre for the Arts and Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

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  • A Moon in Gemini by Rachel Boury Baxter

    coming june 2023

    A Moon in Gemini

    by Rachel Boury Baxter

    Publication Date: 6 June 2023
    Nightingale & Sparrow Press

    Genre: Poetry

    A Moon in Gemini explores the loss of identity that a mother feels, particularly in the early years, as well as the subsequent piecing together of a new one. By musing on impactful life events such as the loss of loved ones, experiencing limerence, watching children grow, and indulging in nostalgia, A Moon in Gemini paints the mundane with a gentle, lyrical brush.

    With short, punchy pieces centered on motherhood, marriage, memory, grief, and growing up, A Moon in Gemini puts big emotions into small poems. The speaker expresses her strong desire to express her authentic identity while climbing through the tangled weeds of our modern culture. Brief but purposeful, these poems attempt to tackle the conicting feelings that stem from society’s pressure on mothers and expectations on women in general.

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    Rachel Boury Baxter

    About the Author

    Rachel Boury Baxter is a poet, writer, and mom living in South Bend, Indiana. She has a B.A. in English writing and English literature from Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana. In 2016, she founded the publication, Poetry in Form, a celebration of poetic form. In 2020, she released her first chapbook of poetry entitled Mother Scorpion. Rachel spreads her love for literature and writing by working as a high school English teacher and by reading to her children.

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