Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent

In Liz Howard's wild, scintillating debut, the mechanisms we use to make sense of our worlds even our direct intimate experiences of it come under constant scrutiny and a pressure that feels like love. What Howard can accomplish with language strikes us as electric, a kind of alchemy of perception and catastrophe, fidelity and apocalypse. The waters of Northern Ontario shield country are the toxic origin and an image of potential. (From McClelland&Stewart)

Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tentwon the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize in 2016.

• Griffin Poetry Prize winner Liz Howard on the indelible mark of northern Ontario

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Q4:18Griffin Poetry Prize: Liz Howard reads Boreal Swing

This year on q, we're highlighting some of the poets shortlisted for a Griffin Poetry Prize. Today: Liz Howard.