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Conversations with the Kagawong River on CBC Books

sophie anne edwards debut collection Conversations with the Kagawong River is on CBC Books’s list of Canadian books to read this October! Conversations with the Kagawong River raises the possibility of collaboration with the more-than-human. The author spent several years learning to listen to the Gaagigewang Ziibi (Kagawong River) and to follow the rhythms and patterns of its flora and fauna, the weather and the water. She invited the participation of various collaborators – woodpeckers, otters, currents, ice, grasses. The resulting poems, supported by local Elders, language speakers, and historians, make visible the colonial, environmental, and social processes that construct an ecosystem and (settler) relationships to it.

Check out CBC’s full list of suggested titles here, and be sure to catch sophie at Talonbooks’s Vancouver launch at Pyatt Hall on October 16 at 7:30 p.m.!

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