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Planet Earth Poetry: Ulrike Narwani, Emily McGiffin
Of Baltic-German heritage, Ulrike Narwani grew up in Edmonton, Alberta. Spent a ...
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Of Baltic-German heritage, Ulrike Narwani grew up in Edmonton, Alberta. Spent a decade living in the United States, England, India and Thailand. She and her husband co-wrote a travel memoir Above the Beaten Path detailing their adventures flying a single-engine Cessna 182 into remote corners, virtually around the world.
Her poetry has been published in Island Writer, CV2, two chapbooks edited by Patrick Lane, and the anthology Poems from Planet Earth. Placed first in FreeFall, was shortlisted in Arc, and received Honourable Mention in Vallum.
Collecting Silence is Ulrike’s debut volume of poetry (Ronsdale Press, 2017). Her poems explore life’s “unbearable weight” and joy; converse with the Pietà, the Mona Lisa and Magritte’s The False Mirror, and travel paths of beauty and alienation from North America to Asia. Always she listens for what sustains and renews us, to the silence in which our deepest experiences talk to us in a “language we all know without speaking.”
Emily McGiffin is the author of two poetry collections, Between Dusk and Night (Brick Books, 2012), which was a finalist for two national awards, and Subduction Zone (Pedlar Press, 2014), which won the 2015 Creative Book Award from the international Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. She has spent the past several years researching the politics and poetics of environmental justice in South Africa and Canada.
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