October Notebook: of night I made a common place

by Jennifer Zilm

Limited edition chapbook from Dancing Girl Press


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15 pages, Unknown Binding

First published April 19, 2015

About the author

Jennifer Zilm comes from a long line of charismatic hillbillies. She has done time in libraries, archives, bible colleges and social housing. Her most recent book, ReLit Award nominee First-Time Listener was published by Guernica Editions in fall 2022. Her second collection The Missing Field (Guernica Editions, 2018) was shortlisted for the 2019 Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Her first book Waiting Room (BookThug, 2016) was shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. Zilm is also the author of two chapbooks: The whole and broken yellows (Frog Hollow, 2013) and October Notebook (Dancing Girl Press, 2015). Zilm has been a finalist for many contests, including The Malahat Review‘s Far Horizons Award and Arc Poetry Magazine's Poem of the Year. She has graduate degrees in Religious Studies, Archival Studies and Library and Information Studies from the University of British Columbia and was a doctoral fellow at McMaster University, where her (unfinished) dissertation focused on liturgical and poetic texts in the Dead Sea Scrolls. A graduate of Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio and the Humber College School for Writers, Zilm’s writing has been published in numerous journals, including Prism International, Prairie Fire, The Malahat Review, Geist, Arc, Grain, CV2 and The Malahat Review. Learn more at www.jenniferzilm.com.

Reviews

[Calliope · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's a pretty little book of fragments.