You Break It You Buy it
You Break It You Buy it
Rodney Cross
, Rosa Cross
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Barry Kazimer
, Linda Leitch
, Jude Castillo
, Marilyn Stanley
, Dawn Macdonald
, Noelle Walsh
, Andrea Pole
, Natasa Ilic
, Sarah Schwartz
, Dani Kat
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Stacy Stafford
, Amanda Schempp
, Hoda Montazeri
, Alice Meems
, Haley Spencer
, Roland Schigas
, Melissa Kohlman
, Joe Mitchell
, Karen Nordrum
, Karen Kendrick
, Heather Belliveau
, Prabh Toor
, Kym Marsh
, Rhona Brinkman
, C. Ray
, Nancy Daoust
, Charles Leblanc
, Robert Hykawy
, Randi Ann Doll
, Laura Patterson
, Mary Therrien
, Deb Philippon
, Shannon Lee
, Tyra Antle
, Shawna Moodie
, Kathleen Mary Kilmer
, Mary Danieli
, Trish Bowering
, Sandra Perry
, Ken Gilmour
, Jessica Murray
, Andrea Gillespie
, Crystal Inwood
, Melissa Poremba
, Kim Cappellina
, Susan Hroncek
, Janet Meisner
, Taylor MaGee
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Theresa Dewis
, Maureen Brownlee
, Kate Rutter
, Michelle Onyango
, Joanne Kloeble
, Yolande Thivierge
, Sandra Storey
, Lynn Andrews
, Deanna Radford
, diana kirkwood
, Jenna Lyn Albert
, Rose Ghaedi
, Benita Hartwell
, Janice Cournoyer
, Karene Polhuis
, Anne Baldo
editor@49thShelf.com
You Break It, You Buy It features poems about disconnection, misconnections: the loss of friendships and identity, our voice, our purpose. At its core, it is a collection of elegies railing against and dealing with toxic relationships, from fair-weather friends, controlling mothers to narcissists. These poems invite the reader into personal experiences, public observations and the price we pay, positive and negative for our interactions with the media, our global and local conflicts, environmental challenges, the pandemic, the Me Too and Black Lives Matter movements. She writes about the dark underside of our lives with a sense of danger, humour and of hope for reconnection in the future with our community and our world.
