It Begins in Salt

by Natalie Meisner

It Begins in Salt, a book of poems, wanders the halls of an ocean blue-collar life while rummaging the heart spaces of growing up, and evolves into mothering, labours, and loves. The poems explore the ways the heart grows, and the tentacles of complexity grow and evolve “to infinity”. This book of poems is a love letter to those that share the tides of life. It urges us to love harder and give homage to those loved.

Genres: Poetry

88 pages, Paperback

Published April 15, 2023

About the author

Natalie Meisner is a writer from Lockeport, Nova Scotia. Her plays have been produced across the country, won numerous awards, been collected in book from and appear in numerous Canadian Anthologies. She is also a wife and the mother of two great boys, and divides her time between Lockeport, Nova Scotia, Den Haag, Holland, and Calgary, Alberta. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Mount Royal University where she teaches creative writing and drama.

Reviews

[Lisa Bush · Rating 5 out of 5]

A beautiful collection of poetry recounting the power of childhood, love, relationship, and place. Meisner's poems recounting her early childhood with her mother were my personal favourites, as in Making It Look Easy, "Like a sword swallower, like a figure skater she had the knack of making it look easy, my mother, naps twenty minutes between jobs two & three on the backseat of our old car that'll quit before she does" Powerful. I enjoyed it immensely.

[Nancy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great rhythm on these.