Realia
Noelle Walsh
, Marilyn Stanley
, Melissa Poremba
, Dawn Macdonald
, Sharon Forzley
, Janice Cournoyer
, Robert Hykawy
, Sarah Schwartz
, Jude Castillo
, Rosa Cross
, Rodney Cross
, Sara Conway
, Ken Gilmour
, Lynn Bechtel
, Kim Cappellina
, Benita Hartwell
, Joseph Chirayil
, Randi Ann Doll
, cassandra schiemann
, Joe Mitchell
, Karen Nordrum
, Linda Leitch
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Amanda Schempp
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Andrea Pole
, Barry Kazimer
, Agnes Marshall
, Lynn Andrews
, Melissa Singh
, Kirsten Lyon
, Kartik Gupta
, Holly Elisabeth
, Joshua Lewis
, Alyce Soulodre
, Prabh Toor
, Wendy Houlden
, Heather Belliveau
, Stephen Pinder
, Maria Mclean
, Jessica Murray
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Kym Marsh
, Lynn Tait
, Michael Edwards
, Brian Yee
, Damen Rae
, Rose Ghaedi
, Nicki D'Angelo
, Dani Kat
, Tanis Anne
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Charles Leblanc
, Wanda Brine
, Linda Ludke
, Kate Rutter
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In Realia, Michael Trussler grapples with the black fire of mental illness, revels in the joy inherent to colours, and probes what it means to be alive at the beginning of the Anthropocene. Perfectly clear, perfectly opaque, Trussler’s poetry implodes the lyric to channel the bright disintegration of our contemporary moment. These are poems requiring Jonah and Little Red Riding Hood to change places if we are to measure diagnostically homeless oceans, surveillance capitalism, and the vulnerable human body. Shambolic and precise, these poems are unskinned. Including a mini-essay on the author’s OCD and another on how a Caspar David Friedrich painting is an uncanny neighbour to ourselves, Realia is fluent in mitochondrial psychology and the diaries of Katherine Mansfield. It also offers lessons in extinct Barbie Doll arrangement.
