wreckoning

by Leah Horlick, Alison Roth Cooley

"wreckoning" unfolds as a metamorphosis, a mythic narration of the sea and the transformative effects of winter weather. It is an artefact, not scientific or historical, but folkloric; a document of a household as it shifts shape in the inescapable force of the (super)natural world.

Genres: Poetry, Canada

First published November 1, 2010

About the author

​Leah Horlick is a writer and poet who grew up as a settler on Treaty Six Cree Territory & the homelands of the Métis in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Her first collection of poetry, Riot Lung (Thistledown Press, 2012), was shortlisted for a 2013 ReLit Award and a Saskatchewan Book Award. Her second collection, For Your Own Good (Caitlin Press, 2015), was named a 2016 Stonewall Honour Book by the American Library Association. She is also the author of wreckoning, a chapbook produced with Alison Roth Cooley and JackPine Press. She lived on Unceded Coast Salish Territories in Vancouver for nearly ten years, during which time she and her dear friend Estlin McPhee ran REVERB, a queer and anti-oppressive reading series. In 2016, Leah was awarded the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers. In 2018, her piece "You Are My Hiding Place" was named Arc Poetry Magazine's Poem of the Year. Her next collection of poems, "Moldovan Hotel," is forthcoming from Brick Books in spring 2021. She lives on Treaty Seven Territory & Region 3 of the Métis Nation in Calgary.

Reviews

[Calista · Rating 5 out of 5]

Deeply and fundamentally amazing, beautiful, lyric, inspirational, etc.