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Arielle Twist, a trans Cree woman from George Gordon First Nation in Saskatchewan, describes her debut poetry as raw and unfiltered. The poems are about grief, displacement, dating, sex and relationships. This book received the Dayne Ogilvie Prize and the Indigenous Voices Award. #Canadian #LGBTQ #TransGirlApril #poetry

And if we must survive,
which means we must write,
I‘ll weave you into a poem,
this art of quilting words.
I think that‘s the closest thing
I will ever feel to love.

This was a lovely collection of poetry by a two-spirited Indigenous trans woman. It's powerful and gritty and sweet and all other unnameable things that make up meaningful poetry. #transbooks #2spiritbooks #poetry

a berry smoothie, some cold brew coffee, & a few books - these are all poetry collections that I've been reading over the last few weeks - let the reading for the day begin 📖
I only manged to read 4 hours yesterday - though I did start & finish a book & read a bit of another - so I won't get anywhere near 24, but still going to get as much reading in as I can today #24in48

I didn‘t have much of an appetite at lunch but I had to eat SOMETHING, so I paired a sorta-ploughman‘s plate with some excellent poetry.

This week‘s library haul includes two poetry collections and more XXXHOLIC. I wanted more SILVER SPOON, too, but the volumes the catalogue swore were on the shelf were nowhere to be found. I sure hope they were in someone‘s to-borrow stack, not stolen.