These Wings

by Kim Fahner, Monica Kidd (Editor)

Sudbury poet Kim Fahner continues her lifelong look at the trees and birds and water of northern Ontario in her fifth poetry collection, THESE WINGS. From those who labour in the mining underworld to the vulnerable lives we construct above them, Fahner walks us to the thin place between aching and soaring, where something holy is glimpsed between people, and between natural and created worlds. "You cannot walk it out, this love. You cannot push it out through the soles of your feet, urging it down // into the earth, into hidden labyrinths of nickel and copper. It begs you to carry it, tired and weary."

Genres: Poetry

83 pages, Paperback

First published February 28, 2019

Reviews

[Dorothy Mahoney · Rating 5 out of 5]

A beautiful cream cover with a magpie is the introduction to a insightful collection of poems
by the former poet laureate of Sudbury. Specific poems about the Essex County landscape, crows,
ravens and weather bring change. The long sequence of poems about letters written during the war with specific flowers from each spot pressed between the pages are sensitive and poignant.
A treasure to reread and read over again...

[Betty · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kim's best work so far. She is a talented poet who speaks to the struggles of being a woman - healing through nature. ..my heart and soul splits open through every fragment of this book. Beautiful - simply divine. Ms. Fahner is a breath of fresh air for Canadian poets!

[Tanya Neumeyer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Finely crafted, Kim's words swirl together like leaves on an eddy of wind on the sidewalk, building towards something. An inspiring example.

[Alexis · Rating 4 out of 5]

A gorgeous collection of poems.