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DEAR BIRCH, Margaret Christakos

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Finalist 2022 Pat Lowther Memorial Award

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Margaret Christakos

Finalist 2022 Pat Lowther Memorial Award

Poetry
ISBN-13: 978-1-989287682
$18.95 CDN / $17.95 US | Trade Paperback
April 2021

“Attachment is the puzzle.”

Three years after her mother’s death and on the brink of a break up, a bisexual writer sits in the company of an urban birch tree, auditing the odds of new loves entering her future. So begins Dear Birch, an intimate poem cycle that improvises within the permutability of grief, wind, reading, refusal and desire, listening for an ethos of ongoingness. Synthesizing memoir, votive and epistle, Margaret Christakos displays her trademark fidelity to writing as attentive process, imbuing her work with the polyamory of tender intelligence.

Praise for Dear Birch,
Dear reader, you will read Dear Birch, compulsively from start to finish, laying aside other urgencies to be gripped by these tender meditations and acute observations of the human and natural worlds. You will return for a second, slower reading to savour the intimacy of Christakos’s lyrical writing and the rigour of her self-inquiries. Afterwards, you will absorb the text’s compassionate witnessing of “waves of woundedness” through the combined lens of parent, daughter, city-dweller and lover. And you will learn to fall in love with a tree, with the wind, “with the interrelation of trees in wind, wind in trees.—Maureen Hynes, author of Sotto Voce
Weight 220 g
Dimensions 21.6 × 14 × 2 cm

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