You hungry? I'm hungry. Let's call this Our Familiar Hunger

I'm thrilled that Nightwood Editions will be publishing my fourth collection of poetry, Our Familiar Hunger, in 2018.

Our Familiar Hunger explores the lives of Eastern European women, both contemporary and historical. Poems move from the Russian Revolution into holodomor, the massive state-imposed famine in Ukraine, to early twentieth century immigration to Canada and the subsequent interment of those of Eastern European descent into prisoner camps across Canada during the First World War. The collection moves into twenty-first century migration, the international sex trade, and internet-arranged marriage as a way to into "the West". Set against backdrops of historical and contemporary conflict zones, farmers' fields ravaged by the greed of government officials, and oil fields pumping crude resources out of northern Canada, the women each respond to different types of hunger - literal hunger for food and sustenance, sexual hunger and desire, hunger for love, respect, equality, acceptance, and peace.

In other words, some nice light reading!