Scorch - Softcover

Rice, Natalie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1554472490 ISBN 13: 9781554472499

Publisher: Gaspereau Pr, 2023

Synopsis

"In Scorch, Natalie Rice situates our sense of individual disconnection and grief within a larger ecology of loss, where nature is an active force and change is a continuous, complex cycle encompassing both the wildfire and whatever beauty may still riseout of the scorched ground. Grappling with connection and disconnection, plenitude and emptiness, Rice's poems 'lean/into what cannot be explained,' listening for the music, voicing the contradictions--'how the unsayable/hung like a red berry in the back/of my throat'" --

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About the Author

Natalie Rice is the author of the poetry collection Scorch(2023) and Nightjar (2025), both published by Gaspereau Press. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Terrain.org, The Dalhousie Review, The Malahat Review, Literary Review of Canada and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia and lives on the south shore of Nova Scotia.

From the Back Cover

In Scorch, Natalie Rice situates our sense of individual disconnection and grief within a larger ecology of loss, where nature is an active force and change is a continuous, complex cycle encompassing both the wildfire and whatever beauty may still rise out of the scorched ground. Grappling with connection and disconnection, plenitude and emptiness, Rice’s poems “lean/into what cannot be explained,” listening for the music, voicing the contradictions―“how the unsayable/hung like a red berry in the back/of my throat.”

Edition details

• Publisher: Gaspereau Pr
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1554472490
• ISBN 13: 9781554472499
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 75