ISBN:
9781772017090
Pages: 96 pp
Pub. Date:
April 28 2026
Dimensions: 9" x 6" x 0.4375"
Rights: Available: WORLD
Categories
Poetry / POE024000
- POETRY / Canadian
- POETRY / Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Disability
- POETRY / Women Authors
Save Your Prayers – Send Money boldly takes on the wellness industry, considering disability politics through the lived experience of a seventy-year-old Métis woman and recovering New Ager. Weaving intergenerational trauma and its impact on health through the author’s experience of living with chronic pain and illness, these poems explore where healing might lie and how a peace might be found whether we heal or not. The weft supporting all of this is the importance of belonging, of blood memory and cellular memory reaching back to our earliest Ancestors.
By Jónína Kirton
Jónína Kirton, a Red River Métis/Icelandic poet, author, and facilitator, was born in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba (Treaty One). She currently lives in the unceded territory of the Musqueam, Sḵwxwú7mesh, and Tsleil-Waututh. Kirton graduated from the Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio in 2007 where she now teaches a workshop titled Pen & Sword. She is a longstanding member of their Advisory Board. A late-blooming poet, she was sixty-one when she received the 2016 Vancouver’s Mayor’s Arts Award for an Emerging Artist in the Literary Arts category.
