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there's a photograph i read frequently — Write or be Written Off, 1988, from the British artist & activist Jo Spence (1934 -1992) \ it's a small portrait oriented photograph \ a vintage C-type print with muted colours

The Hunger of Memory 
In the Bear’s House, Bruce Hunter. Frontenac House, 2025 (originally published 2009). 

Honk for Dissecting the Colonial Archive! 
Goose, Melanie Dennis Unrau. Assembly Press, 2025. 

“My god, it was glorious” 
Wellwater, Karen Solie. House of Anansi Press, 2025. 

Pleasure and Its Containment 
The Tinder Sonnets, Jennifer LoveGrove. Book*hug Press, 2026. 

T4Tea 
Queers at the Table: An Illustrated Guide to Queer Food (with Recipes), edited by Alex D. Ketchum and Megan J. Elias. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2025. 

Two books of poetry in particular have deeply moved me and altered my view of myself and my place in the world as a disabled person.

I live in a river valley. It has taken millennia for the long path of the Gatineau River to etch this valley out of the rocks and hills of the Canadian Shield. Vast, countless forests, fields, and wetlands border the river’s shoreline, bringing their boundless biodiversity.

I've been returning lately to …And They Have Escaped the Weight of Darkness by Ólafur Arnalds. It's an album I write to—not as background, but as a kind of formal pressure. The compositions move patiently, through repetition and small tonal shifts rather than dramatic change, and I'm drawn to work that trusts atmosphere over event, accumulation over arrival.