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Pamela Medland's poems have appeared widely online and in print in Canadian literary journals and anthologies. Originally from the west coast, Medland currently lives in Calgary (Treaty 7 territory, Metis Nation Region 3) where she serves as Director of the Airdrie Public Library. Echo of Ash is Medland's debut collection.Social Media Handle
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In Echo of Ash Medland shares the pain and trauma of the sudden loss of her best friend and partner of thirty-eight years. While Medland’s sorrow is personal, her poems portray facets of a grief journey that is universal. The collection builds towards an acceptance of the impermanence of life and the transitory nature of all human relationships. The final poem ends with "the splendour of a slow night fall" that "moves us to silence."
Poetic Appetizers
I hold your box of ashes to my ear / and hear the sound clouds make / when they are making snow, / a quiet, endless becoming.
I hold your box of ashes to my ear
and hear the sound clouds make
when they are making snow,
a quiet, endless becoming.
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I have never been less dead than when, at ten, I jumped / feet first into a salmon run. Felt on soles the slap, the rush / the thousand scarlet bodies thrashing.
I have never been less dead than when, at ten, I jumped
feet first into a salmon run. Felt on soles the slap, the rush
the thousand scarlet bodies thrashing.
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Medwyn McConachy writes poetry about place, ancestry, and old ways of knowing. Her work can be found in PEP's pandemic collection 'The Sky is Falling, The Sky is Falling' and in the SFU 2021 Emerge, launching October 24 at the Vancouver Writer's Festival. She lives with gratitude on Hul’q’umi’num and SENĆOŦEN lands, Salt Spring Island.
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Russell Books, 747 Fort Street www.russellbooks.com, Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 3E9, Canada