Foodshed

A linked suite of poems about growing up that is also an intertextual reaching-out to the community of prairie poets. In tough and tender lyrical language, the protagonist explores sexual politics, feminism, gender identity, and how we make meaning.

Luka and her sister Connie are the inheritors of a secretive and disturbing family history going back three generations to the disappearance of their great-grandfather.

By turns angry, powerful, visceral, evocative, and ultimately hopeful, this modern retelling of Joan of Arc in linked poems casts her as a prairie-born Jeanne Dark.

In this amazing first collection, a new and original voice sparks with intelligence in its full-tilt explorations of nature, solitude, joy, loss, and love.

These exquisitely crafted stories travel across the rolling prairies, unforgiving mountain ranges, and coastal highways of Western Canada, shining a light on the complexities of life.

When chef and writer dee Hobsbawn-Smith left the city for rural life on a farm in Saskatchewan, she planned to replace cooking and teaching with poetry and prose. But—as begin the best stories—her next adventure didn’t quite work that way.