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    ISBN: 9781772012125 | Paperback

    144 pages | Pub. Date: 20181003
    6 W × 7.5 H × .75 D inches
    Backlist | Poetry | Bisac: POE011000
    Rights: WORLD

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How might poetic practices undermine racist ideologies and colonialism, engendering ecological attentiveness, and anomalous and compassionate communities? Christine Stewart’s Treaty 6 Deixis takes up these timely and pressing questions as it investigates what it means to be a non-Indigenous inhabitant of Canada’s Treaty 6 territory, “in this city, on this land, in this country, on this planet, in a way that acknowledges and honours all my obligations and all my relations, the complex web of connective tissues that keep me here.” (Deixis is a word or phrase – like “this,” “that,” “ now,” “then” – that points to the time, place, or situation in which a speaker is speaking or a writer is writing.)

Written beside the kisiskâciwani-sîpiy (North Saskatchewan River) on Treaty 6 land – which encompasses most of the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan – this gorgeous long poem reinstates and re-sounds the extent of the author’s obligations, considering the ways in which language can be formally and contextually engaged to refigure and potentially re-articulate the world. Treaty 6 Deixis, Stewart’s long-anticipated first solo trade colection, is an exemplary, ethically engaged, and much-needed exploration, and a step towards reconciliation.

By Christine Stewart

Christine Stewart is an Associate Professor in the English and Film Studies Department at the University of Alberta. She studies poetics, and is a founding member of the Writing Revolution in Place Research Collective.

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news | 2019-06-10
Christine Stewart in conversation with Erina Harris for CWILA

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news | 2018-11-15
Fall Launch a Resounding Success!

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news | 2018-11-13
Talonbooks Fall Poetry Launch is Tonight!

…and the Monochrome ), and Christine Stewart (from Treaty 6 Deixis ). Tuesday, November 13 Doors at 7:30 p.m., …


news | 2018-09-24
All signs point to Treaty 6 Deixis

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news | 2018-09-18
Talonbooks Fall Poetry Launch in Vancouver

…Almost Islands ), and Christine Stewart (from Treaty 6 Deixis ). Tuesday, November 13 Doors at 7:30 p.m., …


news | 2018-06-21
Happy National Indigenous Peoples Day!

…include Indigenous authors, and beholden and Treaty 6 Deixis , both forthcoming this fall, centre themes of …