Winter’s Cold Girls is a startling and resplendent poetic offering”. Her dazzling, precise lines reveal a vital poetics that grows out of ordinary landscapes to transform the text into a balm for insight, healing, and articulation. “In Winter’s Cold Girls, Lisa Baird explores the roots of trauma, queer love, and self awakening. They want you to come close.Īvailable from Caitlin Press or from your local bookstore, Winter’s Cold Girls was shortlisted for the 2020 Relit Award for poetry. These are poems of disruption, discovery, and witness-balancing brutal honesty with a welcoming intensity.
The style shifts from lyric to deeply personal narrative to fantastical: an old woman plants broken light bulbs and harvests dark flowers, two sisters grow feathers in a nest in the backyard maple, a mother turns into a deer and escapes the unspeakable through a kitchen window. These poems are interested in the resilience of bodies and sexualities, often grounded in an earthy humour. This fresh and visceral debut explores themes of trauma and recovery, everyday violence, and queerness from a personal point of view as well as a wider political context.
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