Hump

by Ariel Gordon

2011 Lansdown Prize for Poetry, Manitoba Book Awards

Genres: Poetry

88 pages, Paperback

First published April 15, 2010

About the author

Ariel Gordon (she/her) is a Winnipeg/Treaty 1 territory-based writer, editor, and enthusiast. She is the ringleader of Writes of Spring, a National Poetry Month project with Plume Winnipeg that appears in the Winnipeg Free Press. She is the author of seven books, the most recent of which are the essay collection Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest (Wolsak & Wynn, 2024) and the epistolary spec-fic novel Blood Letters, co-authored with graphic novelist GMB Chomichuk (Great Plains Press, 2025). Her work appeared in Best Canadian Essays 2025, edited by Emily Urquhart, and will be in Best Canadian Poetry 2026, edited by Mary Dalton.

Reviews

[Alexis]

I liked the humour in this collection, and the intersection between the natural world and the urban world. I also liked the love that the poet showed for her child and partner. Her use of words was fun, and the imagery was great.

(I have a hard time writing about poetry collections, especially if I know the author.)