Monitoring Station

By Sonja Ruth Greckol

Sonja Ruth Greckol’s Monitoring Station enters a slipstream of space and planetary language, circling time, embodying loss and longing, generating and regenerating in a faltering climate. Orbiting through a mother’s death, a grandbaby’s birth, and a pandemic summer, these poems loop and fragment in expansive and empathetic ways. The title poem locates a settler voice revisiting Treaties 6 and 7 and the Métis lands of her Alberta childhood, while the overall collection is tethered to Toronto shadowed by northland prairie. Nimble, energetic, and challenging, the book engages a dense kind of poetic thinking about belonging and responsibility to people and place, within both recent history and far-flung cosmic realities. Falling squarely within a Canadian feminist experimental lyric trajectory, and grounded in bodily, personal, and political experience, Monitoring Station embodies the passage of a damaged world across generations.

• Language: English
• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Release date: Mar 27, 2023
• ISBN: 9781772126983

Sonja Ruth Greckol

Sonja Ruth Greckol is the author of No Line in Time, Skein of Days, and Gravity Matters. She lives in Tkaronto/Toronto.

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