kim trainor

Writing from and through Delta, British Columbia and wildfire season while “charting a long-distance relationship,” Kim Trainor’s fourth full-length collection is A blueprint for survival: poems (Toronto ON: Guernica Editions, 2024), a book-length poem around climate crisis, fires and long-distance love, following her collections Karyotype (London ON: Brick Books, 2015), Ledi (Toronto ON: Book*hug 2018), and A thin fire runs through me (Fredericton NB: Icehouse poetry/Goose Lane Editions, 2023) [see my review of such here]. Furthering her examination of the book-length lyric suite, A blueprint for survival seems comparable Matt Rader’sFINE: Poems (Nightwood Editions, 2024) [see my review of such here] for their shared book-length British Columbia perspectives around climate crisis and wildfires, but with added layers of emotional urgency.

For the entire review: https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2024/04/kim-trainor-blueprint-for-survival-poems.html

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