Overview
Some burdens are too important to be let go. When one young woman finds herself unable to sleep, she walks down the highway: down, down, down, to visit an old friend. When the ocean offers to carry the weight of the world for her, she thinks that it will be a relief to put it down for a while. But what are the consequences of letting go of your grief?
Full Product Details
Author: Evelyn Elgie ,
Brianna Tosswill ,
Georgia Atkin
Publisher: Evelyn Elgie
Imprint: Evelyn Elgie
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 0.20cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.059kg
ISBN: 9781777346805
ISBN 10: 1777346800
Pages: 36
Publication Date: 07 November 2020
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"""Pitch perfect...With personal honesty, Elgie captures the anxiety and sadness we are collectively experiencing right now and our desire to assign a place for it. The book is meta-poetry/meta-print-just as the poem's narrator has a dialogue with the ocean, Tosswill's prints are both dialogue with the ocean and a visual dialogue in response to Elgie's poetic triptych. Tosswill's (re)creation of something malleable and changing in the linoprints in ""Conversations With the Ocean"" is a triumph."" -Wendy McGrath, author of A Revision of Forward"
Pitch perfect...With personal honesty, Elgie captures the anxiety and sadness we are collectively experiencing right now and our desire to assign a place for it. The book is meta-poetry/meta-print-just as the poem's narrator has a dialogue with the ocean, Tosswill's prints are both dialogue with the ocean and a visual dialogue in response to Elgie's poetic triptych. Tosswill's (re)creation of something malleable and changing in the linoprints in Conversations With the Ocean is a triumph. -Wendy McGrath, author of A Revision of Forward
Author Information
Evelyn Elgie is a writer and multidisciplinary artist living and working on the ancestral, traditional and unceded territories of the Musqueam people. Her poetic, academic, and artistic practice grapples with difficult questions around decolonization, responsibility, land, and water, trying to unlearn settler perspectives and think through different possibilities for loving. Evelyn's poetry has appeared in Glass Mountain, Hinge, and Open Heart Forgery, and her work on polyasexual intimacies is forthcoming with Demeter Press in the collection Liminal Chrysalis: Reproduction and Parenting Beyond the Binary. She is the co-creator of the blog Not Banging (@notbanging on Instagram and Twitter), the producer of the piloted podcast Accessible Democracy and the winner of the 2017 Claire Fooshee Poetry Prize. Brianna Tosswill is an artist who expresses herself and others in print and book format. She explores the limits and unique opportunities of letterpress printmaking in her work and is preoccupied with geometry and mathematics. She obtained her BFA in Printmaking with distinction from OCAD University in 2017, and spent two years as an active member at Open Studio in Toronto. She is currently working out of SNAP Printshop in Edmonton (amiskwacîwâskahikan), Alberta.
