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    Otolith

    By Emily Nilsen

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    Winner, 2018 League of Canadian Poets Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
    Longlisted, 2018 League of Canadian Poets Pat Lowther Memorial Award

    Otolith — the ear stone — is a series of bones that help us to orient ourselves in space. In Otolith, Emily Nilsen attempts a similar feat in poetry: to turn the reader's attention to their relationship to the world, revealing an intertidal state between the rootedness of place and the uncertainty and tenuousness of human connection. Born in the fecundity of British Columbia's coastal rainforest, these poems are full of life and decay; they carry the odours of salmon rivers and forests of fir; salal growing in the fog-bound mountain slopes.

    This astonishing debut, at once spare and lush, displays an exquisite lyricism built on musical lines and mature restraint. Nilsen turns over each idea carefully, letting nothing escape her attention and saying no more than must be said. Combining a scientist's precision and a poet's sensitivity, Otolith examines the ache of nostalgia in the relentless passage of time.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGoose Lane Editions
    Release dateMar 28, 2017
    ISBN9780864929525
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    Otolith
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    Emily Nilsen

    Emily Nilsen was born and raised in Vancouver. She has published poems in PRISM International, Lake, and The Goose, and in a chapbook entitled Place, No Manual. Nilsen was a finalist for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2015, after have been longlisted for the prize on three separate occasions. Her work has also been longlisted for the UK National Poetry Prize. She lives in Nelson, BC.

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